Hi,

is it possible to have colored directories when typing 'ls' from a bash
shell as a user?
you know like when you are logged as root

....if not, I remeber there was one option in the ls command that would
attach a / at the end of each directory name, so that you could
distinguish directories from files, but I cannot find it.

thanks

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:04:30 GMT, Ivan Di Prima staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
root and the normal users must have different environment/alias
settings. There's nothing specific to root that demands colored ls.
You probably want something like:

alias ls='ls --color=auto'

....in your ~/.alias file. You usually have a line in your ~/.bashrc
that goes

test -e ~/.alias && . ~/.alias

....so all your aliases are always sourced.

"man ls", line 45 or thereabouts. Where were you looking?

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On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:04:30 GMT, Ivan Di Prima wrote:
--color[=WHEN]
control whether color is used to distinguish file types. WHEN
may be `never', `always', or `auto'

ls --color=always

seems to work (I tried it in rxvt).

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Neil Cherry wrote:

ls -F puts a "/" after directories

is that good enough?

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