Re: Re: color ls

2005-10-17 Thread Tim
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Re: color 'ls' in frame buffer console

2000-10-15 Thread Ville Harju
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:20:05PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:28:14AM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 12:33:49AM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote: > > > How do I get 'ls' to display color like xterm in the console (no X)? > > > i.

Re: color 'ls' in frame buffer console

2000-10-15 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:28:14AM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 12:33:49AM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote: > > How do I get 'ls' to display color like xterm in the console (no X)? > > i.e. directories=blue, executables=green, links=light blue, > > devic

Re: color 'ls' in frame buffer console

2000-10-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 12:33:49AM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote: > How do I get 'ls' to display color like xterm in the console (no X)? > i.e. directories=blue, executables=green, links=light blue, > devices=yellow. I am using the frame buffer. add the following to your ~/.bashrc: eval `

Re: color ls and log file perms...

1998-10-09 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, D'jinnie wrote: > Where is the color file for the color option of ls? In slackware it's > /etc/DIRCOLORS but I can't seem to locate it on debian :( Maybe you are looking for this: dircolors --print-database [ Complete details in info format ].

Re: color ls and log file perms...

1998-10-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 22:37:01 -0500 (CDT) D'jinnie writes: > Also - since logs get rotated every night, how can I change the > group and permissions (group readable) for all log files? I would > like to be able to view/edit them from my user account instead of > root... Add your user to the group

Re: color-ls how do I use it?

1998-07-17 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Just an idea! Should 'ls --color' be compiled as default? I believe we all have color monitor Richard L. Alhama wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Andreas Mueller wrote: > > > Hi > > Try > > 'ls --color' > > If it works, set the alias ls='ls --color '. > woohoo! It worked > > > by

Re: color-ls how do I use it?

1998-07-16 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > How do I use color-ls? man ls :) ls --color=tty ls --color=auto I use =tty out of preference. just set the alias in you .bash_profil or in /etc/profile Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: color-ls how do I use it?

1998-07-16 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Andreas Mueller wrote: > > > Hi > > Try > > 'ls --color' > > If it works, set the alias ls='ls --color '. > woohoo! It worked > > > by > > -am > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nu

Re: color-ls how do I use it?

1998-07-16 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Andreas Mueller wrote: > Hi > Try > 'ls --color' > If it works, set the alias ls='ls --color '. woohoo! It worked > by > -am > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Thanks a lot /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical S

Re: color-ls how do I use it?

1998-07-16 Thread Andreas Mueller
Hi Try 'ls --color' If it works, set the alias ls='ls --color '. by -am -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: color-ls??

1996-12-16 Thread Dale Martin
Hugo HAAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: > > > I can't seem to find the color-ls package. Has it been replaced by > > something else? > > ls includes now the option color : > >--color, --colour, --color=always, --colour=always >

Re: color-ls??

1996-12-13 Thread System Account
Yes try the fileutils_3.13-4.deb package which replaces color-ls :) tho i can not seem to get it to do any background colors, only some of the foreground. -Rob On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: > > I can't seem to find the color-ls package. Has it been replaced by > something else?

Re: color-ls??

1996-12-13 Thread Hugo HAAS
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: > I can't seem to find the color-ls package. Has it been replaced by > something else? ls includes now the option color : --color, --colour, --color=always, --colour=always Colorize the names of files depending on the type

Re: color-ls??

1996-12-13 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
> I can't seem to find the color-ls package. Has it been replaced by > something else? No more color-ls. It is now part of fileutils, a base package, so it is already installed. Add few aliases to /etc/csh.login for the miracle to happen (for more info, see /usr/doc/fileutils/color-ls.gz):

Re: color ls

1996-10-26 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
[FAQ] Before fileutils 3.13, you need the color-ls package, and then you just need eval `dircolors`. After fileutils-3.13: 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,

Re: color ls

1996-10-26 Thread Jeff Myers
We use the following and it seems to work... eval `dircolors -b` either in the /etc/profile (global) or the the individual user's profile works as well. At 12:40 PM 10/25/96 PDT, you wrote: >To get color ls, use the command > > alias ls="ls --color=auto" > >That's for "sh" and "bash". If

Re: color ls

1996-10-26 Thread Guy Maor
Those of you who have fileutils 3.13, read /usr/doc/fileutils/color-ls.gz for the answers to all your questions. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: color ls

1996-10-26 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > To get color ls, use the command > > alias ls="ls --color=auto" > > That's for "sh" and "bash". If you use "csh" or "tcsh" use > > alias ls "ls --color=auto" > > - Bruce Guess what.. when I do this, and then type ls, I get Segmentation F

Re: color ls

1996-10-26 Thread Jason K. Keimig
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > To get color ls, use the command > > alias ls="ls --color=auto" > > That's for "sh" and "bash". If you use "csh" or "tcsh" use > > alias ls "ls --color=auto" You can just put: eval `dircolors` in your startup script .profile, .tcshrc,

Re: color ls

1996-10-26 Thread Jason Gerry
At 2:40 PM -0500 10/25/96, Bruce Perens wrote: >To get color ls, use the command > > alias ls="ls --color=auto" > >That's for "sh" and "bash". If you use "csh" or "tcsh" use > > alias ls "ls --color=auto" > >- Bruce I've been wondering how to do this, too... So I tried it, and it does

Re: color ls

1996-10-26 Thread Bruce Perens
From: "Jason K. Keimig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You can just put: > eval `dircolors` > in your startup script .profile, .tcshrc, .login or whatever... it sets > the color-ls environment appropriately for whatever shell you use. Are you sure, or am I doing something wrong? Dircolors doesn't tur

Re: color ls

1996-10-26 Thread Jason K. Keimig
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > > You can just put: > > eval `dircolors` > > in your startup script .profile, .tcshrc, .login or whatever... it sets > > the color-ls environment appropriately for whatever shell you use. > > Are you sure, or am I doing something wrong? Dircolors d

Re: color ls

1996-08-05 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > Something has happened to stop ls giving color output. I used to be > able to just run: > > eval `dircolors` > > and ls would work in color - even without specifying the "--color" > option. (And no, ls was not aliased) > > Now it seems I

Re: color ls

1996-08-05 Thread branderh
> Shouldn't it both conflict and replace color-ls, so that color-ls gets > completely overwritten when the new fileutils it replaced? Otherwise stuff > like /usr/doc/copyright/color-ls (for instance) won't get removed... And > dpkg -l will still show a color-ls package. done in 3.13-3 Erick

Re: color ls

1996-08-05 Thread branderh
> hmm ok well i have checked 5 sites now and fileutils-3.12-4.deb IS the > newer version. if i am wrong about this please tell where there is a newer > version. Check unstable for 3.13-3, if not found try a few days later. Erick

Re: color ls

1996-08-03 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Robert> hmm ok well i have checked 5 sites now and fileutils-3.12-4.deb IS Robert> the newer version. if i am wrong about this please tell where there Robert> is a newer version. You have to look in the "rex" aka "development" aka "unstable" tree, not in "Debian-1.1-fixed" aka "Debian-1.1.3

Re: color ls

1996-08-03 Thread Adrenolin
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Robert> same here. i installed fileutils-3.12-4. the color-ls package still > Robert> remains and wasn't removed > Dirk> Sure, 3.12-4 is not 3.13-{1,2}. Try a newer version of fileutils. > Michael> Sorry Dirk but > > I never said that _you_ we

Re: color ls

1996-08-03 Thread Christian Hudon
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Michael Meskes wrote: > 147) dpkg -s fileutils > Package: fileutils > Essential: yes > Status: install ok installed > Priority: required > Section: base > Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Version: 3.13-2 > ^^ > Replaces: color-ls > Pre-Depends:

Re: color ls

1996-08-02 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Robert> same here. i installed fileutils-3.12-4. the color-ls package still ^^ Robert> remains and wasn't removed Dirk> Sure, 3.12-4 is not 3.13-{1,2}. Try a newer version of fileutils. Michael> Sorry Dirk but I never said that _you_ were

Re: color ls

1996-08-02 Thread Michael Meskes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Robert> same here. i installed fileutils-3.12-4. the color-ls package still > ^^ > Robert> remains and wasn't removed > > Sure, 3.12-4 is not 3.13-{1,2}. Try a newer version of fileutils. Sorry Dirk but 147) dpkg -s fil

Re: color ls

1996-08-02 Thread Michael Meskes
Wichert Akkerman writes: > > I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder why the > > old one isn't removed automatically? Is there a reason for this? > > Some monitors make text unreadable (cheap laptops for example) when you use > colors. Maybe a postinst-script could ask if

Re: color ls

1996-08-01 Thread Michael Meskes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Michael> I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder > Michael> why the old one isn't removed automatically? Is there a reason for > Michael> this? > > color-ls was removed here when I installed fileutils-3.13-1. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> dp

Re: color ls

1996-08-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
> I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder why the > old one isn't removed automatically? Is there a reason for this? Some monitors make text unreadable (cheap laptops for example) when you use colors. Maybe a postinst-script could ask if color-ls should be the new defaul

Re: color ls

1996-08-01 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dirk> Oh yes, it was aliased to do that. Just start the dircolors (the old Dirk> one from the color-ls package, that is) from the shell and you'll Dirk> see. Michael> I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder Michael> why the old one isn't removed automatically?

Re: color ls

1996-08-01 Thread Michael Meskes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Erick, is there a way that you can persuade/hack dircolors to do what the old > one did? Or put a note in the package to ease transition? Not only that. Shouldn't we add /etc/DIR_COLORS into fileutils? Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ _

Re: color ls

1996-08-01 Thread Michael Meskes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Oh yes, it was aliased to do that. Just start the dircolors (the old one from > the color-ls package, that is) from the shell and you'll see. I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder why the old one isn't removed automatically? Is there a reason

Re: color ls

1996-08-01 Thread Adrenolin
On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Michael Meskes wrote: > > color-ls was removed here when I installed fileutils-3.13-1. > > Strange. On my site it wasn't. > > Michael > same here. i installed fileutils-3.12-4. the color-ls package still remains and wasn't removed /--

Re: color ls

1996-08-01 Thread Guy Maor
I will add that `--color' is equivalent to `--color=yes', which is probably not what you want. If you make any aliases, use `--color=tty'. You don't want nasty escape codes if it's not a tty. Try `ls --color | less' to see what I mean. And fileutils does have a bug with regards to color-ls. It

Re: color ls

1996-08-01 Thread David A. Morris
I have the same problem. I to have upgraded some packages, but I can't remember which ones. I will try to look at my list and try to remember which ones I did just before I noticed it. Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, >Something has happened to stop ls giving color output. I used

Re: color ls

1996-08-01 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Michael> I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder Michael> why the old one isn't removed automatically? Is there a reason for Michael> this? Wichert> Some monitors make text unreadable (cheap laptops for example) Wichert> when you use colors. Maybe a postinst-s

Re: color ls

1996-08-01 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Guy> I will add that `--color' is equivalent to `--color=yes', which is Guy> probably not what you want. If you make any aliases, use Guy> `--color=tty'. You don't want nasty escape codes if it's not a tty. Those are the old style options implemented by color-ls (which is a patched versi

Re: color ls

1996-08-01 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dirk> > color-ls was removed here when I installed fileutils-3.13-1. ^^ Michael> Strange. On my site it wasn't. Robert> same here. i installed fileutils-3.12-4. the color-ls package still