Removing / from the end of directory with ls

Fliggerty · 12-06-2009, 12:14 AM

Hello all,

My web host has recently upgrading from a custom Sphera VPS system to a cPanel environment. Among many other things, one aspect I don't like is the display of the directories when I list it. It shows something like this:

./
../
.bash_history
.bash_logout
bin/
etc/

The directory names are colored blue (which is fine, changing coloring isn't a problem) but the / is white. Overall it looks kind of disorganized and sloppy to me.

I can't determine how to change that. What type of .bashrc entry would I make to change that particular bit of display?

TIA!

--Fligg

Simon Bridge · 12-06-2009, 12:28 AM

There is a section of ~/.bashrc which deals with the ls command, mine looks like this:

Code:

# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
    test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
    alias ls='ls --color=auto'
    #alias dir='dir --color=auto'
    #alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'

    alias grep='grep --color=auto'
    alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
    alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
fi

yours probably has -F --classify or --file-type in the first alias line, with color off.

Fliggerty · 12-06-2009, 10:05 PM

Perfect, thanks for the response. You pointed me down the right path.

Because this is a cPanel environment, I cannot modify /etc/bashrc (before they upgraded it was a sort of VPS, so I had access to nearly everything.) I found this in that file:

Code:

LS_OPTIONS='--color=tty -F -a -b -T 0';
export LS_OPTIONS;
alias ls='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS';
alias dir='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=vertical';
alias vdir='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=long';
alias d=dir;
alias v=vdir;
eval `dircolors -b`

I copied it to my .bashrc and removed the -F. It works perfectly now. Thank you.