From: alastairchisholm AT hotmail DOT com
Subject: Re: LS_COLORS operational? and info information  cygwin B-20
13 Jan 1999 20:35:31 -0800
Message-ID: <199901131036.CAA18729.cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
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To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

I'm getting similar sounding problems.  I finally managed to get the dircolors 
command to return something (forgot to set TERM=linux - doh!).  When I run the
command I get this:

prompt> eval 'dircolors colors.nt'
LS_COLORS='<lots of blurb>';
export LS_COLORS

But LS_COLORS is not actually set.  If I manually set the variable myself 
(export LS_COLORS='<lots of blurb>') then it works...

Any ideas?  I'm running 20.1 (0.3/1/1) on NT 4.00.1381 SP3

Alastair

vince rice <vric- AT solidrocksystems DOT com> wrote: 
Original Article: http://www.egroups.com/list/gnu-win32/?start=9348
> Hmmmm, I can't get it to work. The eval `dircolors ls.colors` does load the LS_COLORS
> variable with all manner of stuff, but subsequent invocations of ls still aren't
> colored (I renamed the colours-for-ls.nt4 to ls.colors).
> 
> Running NT4SP3, TERM=linux, B20.
> 
> Vince
> 
> Michael Hirmke wrote:
> 
> > Hi Todd,
> >
> > >Question:  Does the LS_COLORS environment variable work in NT/WIN95?  or is
> > >it only a Linux thing?  I have set it to just about everything imaginable to
> >
> > It works at least on my German Windows NT 4 SP3 Server.
> >
> > >no effect.  The only colorizing I get comes with the use of --colors with ls.
> > > I have been successful using the dircolors command as far as modifying the
> > >colors database, but that is all.  What are the values of LS_COLORS?
> > >'always', 'auto' and 'none'?
> >
> > This is, what I use:
> >
> > in .bashrc:
> > ------------------------< snip snip snip >-----------------------------
> > eval `dircolors colours-for-ls.nt4`
> > alias ls="ls --color=tty -F -T 0"
> > ------------------------< snip snip snip >-----------------------------
> >
> > colours-for-ls.nt4:
> > ------------------------< snip snip snip >-----------------------------
> > # 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
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