On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > >I believe that color ls comes with a program called dircolors or something > >like that. Then you typically run eval `dircolors` in your .profile and > >vdir gets aliased to ls -li. > > Can this be made to work for all possible shells? What if you run one > of these programs from a cron job or in a shell script and .profile > hasn't been run?
No idea; on my system (which has colour ls installed, as a binary and configuration file copied from my old Slackware installation), there's no `dircolors' at all, so I'm not sure what's being talked about... It seems to work fine without dircolors, though :-) (S) -- Caius College, Cambridge CB2 1TA, UK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk/users/osd1000/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `As living soul as a flame.'
