> Arrghhh this is driving me mad. > I'm sure its something trivial but how does one > switch ls colors off? > I've got: > Colors=none in /etc/DIR_COLORS > $LS_COLORS='' > But it still uses colors....
unset LS_COLORS type $ alias ls and check that ls hasn't been aliased to some fancy colouring thing (a lot of Linux versions have $ alias ls alias ls='ls --color=tty') unalias ls will give you back the raw ls with no colouring Stuart. http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html