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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting non GNU ls and color on a unix system Post 71395 by cvweiss on Tuesday 10th of May 2005 03:32:11 PM

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Originally Posted by jolok

Not sure if this is what you want, but you may want to look at BSD's ls. They use the -G flag for colorized output.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...ts&format=html

Nope, that doesn't help. The ls I have available for use has no coloring capability whatsoever. If it does, then it isn't specified anywhere in the man, nor has any switch I've tried to use done it for me.

Which is why I'm probably going to have to write something myself.

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