>With the integration of color-ls directly into the fileutils >package, a few things have changed. dircolors no longer sets >up aliases or shell scripts to colorize ls, dir, and vdir. > >Here is an excerpt from a .bashrc which sets up aliases after >running dircolors: > > # set up color-ls > eval `dircolors /home/syrus/.dir_colors` > alias d='ls -F --color=auto' > alias v='ls -l --color=auto' > alias vdir='ls -l --color=auto' > alias dir='ls -F --color=auto' > > >Note that color=tty has been changed to color=auto. See the >documentation for other change information. > > >Cheers. Syrus.
Hi Syrus, In fact the above didn't work for me either--dumped core the first time I used 'ls' after that! Had a hell of a time trying to figure it out.In fact the new way of doing things (at least in my case, and by new I mean Debian 1.1) isn't to rely on /etc/DIR_COLORS, as color-ls and dircolors don't seem to read it! What I had to do was run dircolors, monitor its output, then copy this into my profile (/home/cw/.bash_profile). This is what finally did the trick: *** Excerpt from .bash_profile *** # set up color-ls LS_COLORS='di=1;34:bd=40;33;1:ln=1;36:cd=40;33;1:ex=1;32:*.tar=1;31:*.tgz=1;31:*.gz=1;31:' export LS_COLORS; LS_OPTIONS='--8bit --color=tty -F'; export LS_OPTIONS; alias ls='/usr/bin/color-ls $LS_OPTIONS '; alias dir='/usr/bin/color-ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=vertical'; alias vdir='/usr/bin/color-ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=long'; alias d=dir; alias v=vdir; Of course, for all I know this could the *old* way of doing things, but it works! Now I'm happy. Many thanks to all who responded. Cheers, Chris
