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1. Try xterm-ansi or just ansi. There's also a way to download a termlib entry and use it yourself, but I don't know how with Solaris. What version of Solaris?

2. Get gnu ls and build it with color support. Install it in ~/bin and set your PATH to include that directory before any others. Then create an environment variable called "LS_COLORS". Here's mine:

Code:

LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=40;33;01:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;32:cd=40;32:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:
*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.sh=01;32:*.csh=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:
*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:
*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.tif=01;35:

(Remove newlines and spaces). Directories are bright-yellow rather than dark blue, which I found hard to read on dark backgrounds.

Then alias or functionize your ls command thusly:

Code:

alias ls="/bin/ls --color=auto"

which will turn it on normally, but leave it off when piped to a command, like less. If you want to really get fancy, check out this post -- ls is replaced by a function in such a way that if the directory listing is actually more than a page, less is used. Color is always enabled if piped through less, which is enabled to show it in that case, but if going through a pipe, the standard ls command is used.

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dircolors

DIRCOLORS(1)							   User Commands						      DIRCOLORS(1)

NAME

       dircolors - color setup for ls

SYNOPSIS

       dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable.

   Determine format of output:
       -b, --sh, --bourne-shell
	      output Bourne shell code to set LS_COLORS

       -c, --csh, --c-shell
	      output C shell code to set LS_COLORS

       -p, --print-database
	      output defaults

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       If  FILE  is specified, read it to determine which colors to use for which file types and extensions.  Otherwise, a precompiled database is
       used.  For details on the format of these files, run `dircolors --print-database'.

AUTHOR

       Written by H. Peter Anvin.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report dircolors bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for dircolors is maintained as a Texinfo manual.	If the info and dircolors programs are properly installed at  your
       site, the command

	      info coreutils 'dircolors invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 7.1						     July 2010							      DIRCOLORS(1)