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Operating Systems AIX How to print color text in AIX? Post 302950787 by agent.kgb on Tuesday 28th of July 2015 05:08:05 PM
Old 07-28-2015
NehaJi, I think, you want to see "ls" output in colors. AIX doesn't support colors in the output of ls. You have 2 options:

  1. Write your own ls
  2. Port GNU ls to AIX
Both options are not so difficult and will bring eternal honor to you but only among Linux fans in AIX world.
 

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