Markus Lindström wrote: > I'm trying to find a way to make bash use ls colors by default, on all > virtual consoles. It seems my ~/.bashrc has this activated, but it only > uses it on any virtual terminal I create in X.
Please be specific. What does "activated" mean? Does it mean that
you have this following alias in your ~/.bashrc file?
eval `dircolors -b`
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
> I searched around the disk a bit, and found /etc/bash.bashrc and edited
> it with the relevant parts of my ~/.bashrc, hoping it would fix the
> problem, but ls colors still don't show up by default.
/etc/bash.bashrc is not the correct place for that. It is just a red
herring to throw you off of the trail.
> What more do I have to do? Typing ls --color=auto each time gets a bit
> tedious after a while ;-).
When users are created the /etc/skel directory skeletons of start-up
files are copied into the user directory. One of those is the .bashrc
file. See /etc/skel/.bashrc for the copy that was the default user
file when you created the user. See that it turns on ls --color=auto
by default. Which implies that you had color, but at some point
turned it off by editing your ~/.bashrc file.
Bob
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