From:	mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject:	Re: Colors in shell
11 Apr 1998 16:10:01 -0700 :
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Hi Christopher,

>Okay all... Having some headaches here. :)
>
>How do I get colors? You know, blue for directories, red for links, and so
>on and so on?
>I mostly utilize the tcsh shell, and have a setenv LS_COLORS line in my
>.tcshrc file, but I get nothing.
>Any help would be great!

If you mean, you want to have colors in your ls output, use

        alias ls='ls --color=tty'

in your .<shell>rc file.
*Don't use 'ls --color'*, because it will give you weird output, when
piping ls output for example through less.

>
>Thanks

Bye.
Michael.
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