On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Mario Da costa wrote:

     mario> V Suresh wrote:
     mario>
     mario> >          While RHLinux shows different colours for the directories/files
     mario> > etc in the terminal, Debian doesn't. Why is it so or How should I make
     mario>
     mario> ls --color
     mario>
     mario> also add the line to your .bashrc file
     mario> alias ls='ls --color'
     mario>
     mario> this should work. I never used debian, but i'm pretty sure it will work.
     mario> Listers correct this newbie if i'm wrong.
     mario>

Should work. Here is my /etc/profile

        <snip>
        eval `dircolors`
        alias ls="ls --color=auto -F"
        alias d=ls
        alias v="ls -l"

        fortune

HTH,

sridhar

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Sridhar M.A.                            Powered by:
University of Mysore, Manasagangotri      Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
Mysore 570 006, INDIA


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