bash ls --color alias?
 

It works in root but not as normal user. Have tried to change every bashrc file locate could find, I even tried copying /root/.bashrc to /home/tripmix/.bashrc. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

are you trying to set it by default? you could just do the following in you home .bashrc:

alias ls="ls --color"

That's what I did and it wont work.

.bashrc in home dir
This is my first try:
eval `dircolors -b`
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'

Second try:
export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto'
eval `dircolors`
alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS'
alias ll='ls $LS_OPTIONS -l'
alias l='ls $LS_OPTIONS -lA'

Second one is a copy of .bashrc in /root and it works when I log in as root or su.

must be something debian specific? thats worked for every distro I've ever used. Did you try asking in the debain forums - probably someone there who knows.

Someone here must use Debian. Can't go to the Debian forum now, I have to get smarter first :p . Don't want to look stupid there :D

You can use the bash command source to apply the settings in your .bashrc to your current bash session - source ~/.bashrc. Try it. If it does work, but your settings aren't applied in new terminals or when logging in through ssh (or equivalent), make sure your ~/.bashrc is parsed every time you log in. Do this by adding this to your ~/.bash_profile:This will ensure that your settings in .bashrc are applied to all types of logins.


Håkan

See what your TERM environment variable is set to. For dircolors to work, you must use a term that supports color. You could just look and see what root's is and use it for your user.

as root:
echo $TERM

as user:
export TERM=whatever

Probably either xterm or xterm-color.

Thanks a lot hw-tph that did it.
DaHammer: I was only having problems whit normal CLI not a term but thanks anyway.