On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 06:59:14PM +0800, Johnny wrote: > As of what I saw in slackware, ls is capable of displaying itz results in > color. But up till what I have seen in debian, the ls in debian seems to be > black and white. Can anyone tell me how to turn the color option on? btw > ls --color=auto does not work > with this .bashrc the results of "ls |less" are too coloured.
#------------------------------------------------------- # enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases #------------------------------------------------------- alias ls='ls -hF --color' # add colors for filetype recognition alias ll='ls -la |less ' alias la='ls -A' # alias l='ls -CF' alias l='ls | less' # alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical' # alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long' #----------------- # tailoring 'less' #----------------- export PAGER=less export LESSCHARSET='latin1' export LESS='-i -w -z-4 -g -M -X -F -R -P%t?f%f:stdin .?pb%pb\%:?lbLine %lb:?bbByte %bb:-...' man less, explain the environment variables LESSCHARSET and LESS .... hth -- Gerard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]