From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke) Subject: Re: color ls for Beta19 2 May 1998 10:42:49 -0700 Message-ID: <6t2eu7q4pfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de> References: <35488EAE DOT 9231FE7C AT valueweb DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi Mark, >Does anyone know how to set color ls for bash19 (I have already tried >using export ls --color=always but it doesn't seem to take)? You first have to configure colors properly: Create a config file for "dircolors" - for example: ------------------------< snip snip snip >----------------------------- # colors.in # Configuration file for the color ls utility # COLOR needs one of these arguments: 'tty' colorizes output to ttys, but not # pipes. 'all' adds color characters to all output. 'none' shuts colorization # off. COLOR tty # Extra command line options for ls go here. # Basically these ones are: # -F = show '/' for dirs, '*' for executables, etc. # -T 0 = don't trust tab spacing when formatting ls output. OPTIONS -F -T 0 # Below, there should be one TERM entry for each termtype that is colorizable TERM linux TERM vt100 TERM win32 TERM xterm # EIGHTBIT, followed by '1' for on, '0' for off. (8-bit output) EIGHTBIT 1 # Below are the color init strings for the basic file types. A color init # string consists of one or more of the following numeric codes: # Attribute codes: # 00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed # Text color codes: # 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white # Background color codes: # 40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white NORMAL 00;47;30 # global default, although everything should be something. FILE 00;47;30 # normal file DIR 00;47;34 # directory LINK 00;47;35 # symbolic link FIFO 00;47;36 # pipe SOCK 00;47;36 # socket BLK 00;40;33 # block device driver CHR 00;40;37 # character device driver # This is for files with execute permission: EXEC 00;47;31 # List any file extensions like '.gz' or '.tar' that you would like ls # to colorize below. Put the extension, a space, and the color init string. # (and any comments you want to add after a '#') ..cmd 00;47;31 # executables (bright green) ..exe 00;47;31 ..com 00;47;31 ..btm 00;47;31 ..bat 00;47;31 ..tar 00;47;32 # archives or compressed (bright red) ..tgz 00;47;32 ..arj 00;47;32 ..taz 00;47;32 ..lzh 00;47;32 ..zip 00;47;32 ..z 00;47;32 ..Z 00;47;32 ..gz 00;47;32 ..jpg 01;47;37 # image formats ..gif 01;47;37 ..bmp 01;47;37 ..xbm 01;47;37 ..xpm 01;47;37 ..tif 01;47;37 ------------------------< snip snip snip >----------------------------- Then put the following lines to your .bashrc: eval `dircolors colors.in` alias ls='ls --color=tty' Don't use --color=always - this gives a confusing output for example for ls | less ! > >Mark S. Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de | WWW http://minimike.franken.de/ - 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".