enabling colors in my shell?

Quartzophobia · 02-10-2004, 02:37 PM

how can i enable colors in the shell so i could see symbolic links in one color and directories in another and so on?
(both in "bash" and in "sh")
thx

wapcaplet · 02-10-2004, 03:18 PM

Try 'man dircolors' - it's used for setting up environment variables to do directory coloring for ls. You may also need to use 'ls --color'. You can set it up in your ~/.bashrc, I think - edit that file and add the following lines:

eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`
alias ls="ls --color=auto"

jules_fraser · 01-02-2005, 05:54 AM

I've added this line to my .bashrc file, but I have not noticed a change even after I have logged in and out. Do I have to restart something?

ttolst · 01-02-2005, 06:05 AM

alias ls 'ls --color' is enough if you just want the default colors.

try adding it to .bash_profile, that should be read during login

jules_fraser · 01-02-2005, 06:56 AM

Yup! This worked. Thanks