From: John DOT Cook AT kla-tencor DOT com (Cook, John) Subject: RE: Colors in shell 13 Apr 1998 18:22:41 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: GNU-Win32 Project This alias is safer: alias ls='ls --color=auto' With the one below, the terminal color codes might cause trouble when the output of ls is not to the console. --John > ---------- > From: Christopher Sexton[SMTP:chsexton AT vt DOT edu] > Sent: Friday, April 10, 1998 2:26 PM > To: GNU-Win32 Project > Subject: Re: Colors in shell > > > >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! > > do you mean colors for "ls", if that is all make a alais for ls set to > "ls > --color" > > the line in the rc file is like this: alias ls="ls --color" > > at least that is what I think you are looking for. > > CRS > > > <>< > > Christopher Sexton > remedy AT vt DOT edu > > http://sexton.home.ml.org > UIN: 559124 > > "if they give you ruled paper, write the other way." > -e. e. cummings > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message > to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message > to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".