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Is there a way with the bourne shell to have different types of files show up a different color when you do ls?
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ls --color=auto (if you're using GNU ls)
Code:
# ls --version
ls (coreutils) x.y.z
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# ls --color=auto -l /some/dir
You can alias ls to this in your ~/.bashrc

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