On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Chris Westwood wrote: > This may be one for the Debian FAQ--apologies in advance if you've been > there before--but I haven't seen an answer to it yet. > > I switched from Slackware (2.3) to Debian just a couple of days ago, and > can't seem to get color (that's *colour* here in the UK) listings by > default. Simply typing "ls" gives me the standard white on black, but I'd > really like to be able to distinguish at a glance between files and > directories etc. Using the "color-ls -o" command is the only way I can > achieve this, and even then the colors are ugly defaults, ignoring the > settings in /etc/DIR_COLORS. (These dircolors settings are displayed > verbosely on log in, by the way.) [SNIP] > I may be overlooking something obvious, but are there any settings/files I > need to edit to get what I want? Color's the only thing I'm missing since > switching from Slackware. In everything else, I'm delighted.
This is a now a FAQ because of a recent change: With the integration of color-ls directly into the fileutils package, a few things have changed. dircolors no longer sets up aliases or shell scripts to colorize ls, dir, and vdir. Here is an excerpt from a .bashrc which sets up aliases after running dircolors: # set up color-ls eval `dircolors /home/syrus/.dir_colors` alias d='ls -F --color=auto' alias v='ls -l --color=auto' alias vdir='ls -l --color=auto' alias dir='ls -F --color=auto' Note that color=tty has been changed to color=auto. See the documentation for other change information. Cheers. Syrus. ---------------------------------------------------------- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UCSD Physics Dept.