Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > 2009/3/23 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: > >> Oh, OK. <Dale waves hand over head.> If it is set up to add that >> option, how do you tell it not to use it? >> > > alias ls='/bin/ls --color' > alias l='ls -l' > > With these aliases in your .bashrc (or whatever is appropriate in your > environment), you can now use 'ls' and 'l'. Of course, you already had > 'ls' (namely /bin/ls). > > If you simply type 'ls' then you are using the alias and you get > colour output. If you don't want colour output you use '/bin/ls' (the > actual binary). Typing 'l' basically runs '/bin/ls --color -l'. If you > don't want that then you don't use 'l'. > > >
Oh, Cool.. I see now. So basically you sort of change the command as well. Now that command that someone else posted makes sense too. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
