Re: Mor on cheeplinux...

[Dr A V Le Blanc <nospam [at] mcc.ac.uk>]

On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:52:13PM +0100, Alastair Donlon wrote:
> What used to happen was that /etc/profile contains a command of the form
> 
> eval `dircolors`
> 
> or something a bit more complicated, such as
> 
> COLORS_FILE=/etc/DIR_COLORS
> if [ -f ~/.dir_colors ]
> then
> 	COLORS_FILE=~/.dir_colors
> fi
> eval `dircolors $COLORS_FILE`

Do note that, at least in fileutils 4.0, the default behaviour of
ls and friends is _not to print colours_ unless you ask for it
specifically, i.e., with 'ls --color' or 'ls --color auto'.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc [at] mcc.ac.uk
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