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# 1  
Old 03-25-2012
Colored directories
I just updated to Lion and when I went to use the terminal, all the directories were black. It used to be that the directories were blue? and some things were green and then files were black. Does anyone know how to change this? I tried using:
alias ls='ls -Fskb -color=auto'
without success.

Thanks!
# 2  
Old 03-25-2012
Hi.

Code:
export CLICOLOR=1

ought to do the trick.
# 3  
Old 03-25-2012
try using ls with -G flag
Code:
ls -G

also does the work for you.
Give it a try.
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