how to have colors on the remote console on KSH?

richikiki · 07-06-2006, 09:08 AM

Does anyone knows, how to have colors on the remote console on KSH?.
In order to see on different colors the executables files, directories, normals files etc.
Regards

MensaWater · 07-06-2006, 10:34 AM

The colors are actually set with an alias:

alias ls='ls --color=tty'

Note that this is a feature of ls in Linux rather than ksh or bash. Most UNIX variants (like Solaris) do not have this feature. You can compile the Linux ls for Solaris if you want but if you do should probably put it in a different directory and insure you're calling that. This is because Solaris patches might overwrite it with the standard ls later.

richikiki · 07-06-2006, 12:05 PM

Thanks jlightner,

Unfortunatly, I'm using Solaris "SunOS sparc".
Do you know where to download the ls for sun and compile it just for my login.

Regards,

MensaWater · 07-06-2006, 01:04 PM

Found a page that tells you exactly what to do. I haven't done it (we don't have Solaris at my current job and I personally don't like the colors anyway) but from what I read it seems reasonable to me. The page is:

http://tille.xalasys.com/training/solaris/colorls.php