> >  I have made an alias in /etc/bashrc, $HOME/.bashrc and $HOME/.bash_profile
> > as given below
> > alias l="ls -alF --color=yes |more"
> > this doesn't give the desired/actual result as given in command line.

> I'm no expert but I'd figure that you would have to tell it which colour
> otherwise it could be any of 64 million colours I guess. Else how is it
> going to know what colour?

No, thats not what it means at all.
The color=yes means that whenever you do a ls it will use the colours defined in 
/etc/DIR_COLORS to determine what colour to make files, dirs, links, etc.

H


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