Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 16:47:05 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: How to customise colours in Cygwin bash To: Garry Heaton , cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE References: <3D0BA7D2.4040400@heaton6.freeserve.co.uk> <3D0BC6E2.7050008@heaton6.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3D0BC6E2.7050008@heaton6.freeserve.co.uk> Reply-To: Michael A Chase Message-Id: On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 23:59:46 +0100 Garry Heaton wrote: > Yes, I found 'dircolors.exe' but it's compiled so, unless I become a C > programmer or whatever, I've no chance of editing it. How come this file > is compiled on Cygwin but is a text config file on Linux? > > Michael A Chase wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:47:14 +0100 Garry Heaton > wrote: > > > >>As Cygwin bash comes with no .bashrc or /etc/DIR_COLORS, as in Linux, > >>how do I customise the colours? > > > > info bash > > info dircolor If you _read_ the output of 'info dircolors' you will see that you can give it a file argument to change the ls output colors. You can also set LS_COLORS directly. An example file is available if you run 'dircolors -p' (as mentioned in the 'info dircolors' or 'dircolors --help' output). Please keep this discussion on the list, I am not the sole source of all wisdom. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/