Aight. heres the deal. For a while now i have been wrastlin with learning linux. I went through winblows in no time so naturaly havin a tougher time with this stuff. Im on redhat 8 sumtin. and heres the thing. On my friends system with redhat9 his text in the terminals comes out in color. like folders one color, files another etc etc. When i asked him how he did this he simply said, "oh i wrote a script" I asked him how, he said, "with the script" So, after beating him in the head for the rude one line awnsers that had no help what so ever i was curious if anybody out there would know how to form such a script. i know what scripts are just haven't done one at all yet. so i may be able to dress up my blaz'e text. though i did figure out the windowshade thing and that was cool seing my background through the console.

anywho thats it just to recap.

need info on creating script to dress up my text interaction.

please? =)

No script needed, mate ... unless you
want to put the alias in ~/.bashrc and/or
~/.bash_profile

Try this one :)
and
should shed light on how & why ;)

Oh, btw, the reason I did it with THIS alias (lsc)
and didn't do (alias ls='ls --color=always') is that
the colorized output is "troublesome" for some
processes, I can't exactly remember what it was,
greping, I think...

Cheers,
Tink

Welcome to LQ!

Sounds like your friend is trying to teach you with "Hard love"

To make your terminals show color, you simply need to call ls with --color on the end, so open up your terminal and type:
ls --color
And see all the colors come to life. Now everytime you ls do you really wanna type --color? Nah. So you open up a file in your home directory called .bashrc If one doesn't already exist, go ahead and create a new file, be sure it's in your current users home directory, so if you are logged in as masterc it's probably:
/home/masterc
And then using your favorite text editor, open up .bashrc (note the . before, this means it's a hidden file) and enter:
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

Save and exit, and now type:
source .bashrc

And try using ls. The colors should be radiating out at you

And to have bashrc sourced each time you open up a terminal, here's a thread I found using the excellent search feature (located in the upper right portion of the screen) here at LQ:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=source+bashrc

HTH

Cool

Hey thanks a bunch guys i'l give it a shot.