speaking of colours you know how some shell scripts have output in colour? like this:
Starting reallyneetoservice ...................... [DONE] where [DONE] is in green? how do you do that? can i use that sort of thing in a perlscript? or do i have to learn how to script in bash? _________________________________ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - george bernard shaw ----- Original Message ----- > On May 15, 2002, 21:24 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > On May 15, 2002, 12:37 (-0500) Henning, Brian wrote: > > > > > Hello- > > > Is this what generates color on the terminal screen 'ls --color=tty'? > > > how does it work exactly? how do i turn it on or off? > > > > I put this line in my .bashrc: > > alias ls='ls --color=auto' > > > > this perhaps will give some color to your xterms, [ ... ] > > ... permanently, i.e. as long as you have this line in .bashrc ... > > Regards > Wolfgang > > > > > > > -- > > GnuPG Key: http://home.t-online.de/home/520050060325-0001/key.asc > > Key fingerprint = 6DD7 F9BF 689B 60D4 B20E 9087 7409 6EAF DD0A 8B01 > > > > http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer/ > > > > -- END TRANSMISSION -- > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > ------------ Output from gpg ------------ > > gpg: Signature made Wed 15 May 2002 09:26:54 PM CEST using DSA key ID DD0A8B01 > > gpg: Good signature from "Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > > > > > > -- > GnuPG Key: http://home.t-online.de/home/520050060325-0001/key.asc > Key fingerprint = 6DD7 F9BF 689B 60D4 B20E 9087 7409 6EAF DD0A 8B01 > > http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer/ > > -- END TRANSMISSION -- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
