How do I get colours in terminal (aterm)?

mr-tiddles · 10-23-2003, 07:46 AM

I have tried searching the man pages for aterm but to no avail.
What I want is for different file types (directories, executables) etc to be different colours so I can easily whats what. At my CLI I have this and I'd like the same in aterm or xterm. Is this possible?

yapp · 10-23-2003, 08:05 AM

What happens after you run

"source /etc/profile"?

/etc/profile is automatically loaded if you run the terminal/shell as a "login shell".

hw-tph · 10-23-2003, 08:23 AM

In my ~/.bashrc I have:

alias ls='ls --color -F'

This will make directories darkblue and they'll have a trailing slash. Symlinks are lightblue with a trailing @ and executable files are green with a trailing *.

lupin_the_3rd · 10-23-2003, 09:51 AM

http://ieee.uow.edu.au/documents/Uni...de/node70.html

http://overtone.org/articles/zshrc.php

http://adamspiers.org/computing/zsh/files/.zshrc

mr-tiddles · 10-23-2003, 10:18 AM

Yapp:
Not sure as Im at work at the moment. Will have a look at home tonight.

Thanks everyone for your advice so far. I will look into these things tonight and see how I get on.

lupin_the_3rd · 10-23-2003, 10:23 AM

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/.../msg00318.html