How about,

   alias ls="ls --color -F"

?  That's what I do (have a look at /etc/profile on the firewall
sometime ;-)

Regards,

-- Raju

>>>>> "Mithun" == Mithun Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    Mithun> Some font/terminal/background color combinations might not
    Mithun> like color ls output very well. In either case try out the
    Mithun> following

    Mithun> alias ls='/bin/ls --color=auto'

    Mithun> next try this one and do a listing

    Mithun> alias ls='/bin/ls -F'

    Mithun> This one will put a tag after each file/directory name
    Mithun> which will help you identify the type of file it is.

    Mithun> Once you decide which one to use just add that to your
    Mithun> .bashrc or whatever shell rc script you are using.
-- 
Raju Mathur          [EMAIL PROTECTED]           http://kandalaya.org/

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