Colors

resullivan · #1 (**permalink**) 06-25-2007

Is there a way with the bourne shell to have different types of files show up a different color when you do ls?

zazzybob · #2 (**permalink**) 06-26-2007

ls --color=auto (if you're using GNU ls)

Code:

# ls --version
ls (coreutils) x.y.z
...
# ls --color=auto -l /some/dir

You can alias ls to this in your ~/.bashrc

Cheers
ZB

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