Re: A question about the root shell
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:20:32PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: I'm not a csh user, in fact I hate it. Though, I use it as it is out of the box for root so I'm reminded I'm not an unpriv user any longer. That being said I'm getting annoyed by the fact that the root shell is always showing me all the dot files all the time. It clutters up the terminal with so many files I don't see the ones I want to work with! Is there a way to turn this feature off? I even tried to start a bash and alias ls to ls -F but it still kept showing me the dot-files I'd rather not see. This is not a shell issue, as it applies to csh, sh, and bash. The problem is FreeBSD's /bin/ls. See the ls(1) man page, specifically the -A option description. What you want is the -I flag. Place the following in /root/.cshrc to get what you want: alias ls/bin/ls -I -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A question about the root shell
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:20:32PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote:
I'm not a csh user, in fact I hate it. Though, I use it as it is out of
the box for root so I'm reminded I'm not an unpriv user any longer.
That being said I'm getting annoyed by the fact that the root shell is
always showing me all the dot files all the time. It clutters up the
terminal with so many files I don't see the ones I want to work with! Is
there a way to turn this feature off?
I even tried to start a bash and alias ls to ls -F but it still kept
showing me the dot-files I'd rather not see.
Anyone?
/Andreas
Is the problem the output of ls(1) or the output when using (some form of)
tab-completion or perhaps the result of evaluating wildcard characters ('*',
'?', etc)?
In the former case it has nothing to do with which shell you are using but
is instead a feature of ls(1). Read the ls(1) manpage and pay special
attention to the '-A' and '-I' options.
In the second and third case (tab completion and wildcard expansion) it
depends entirely on your shell how it is handled.
I am afraid I am not familiar enough with either bash or csh to say how (or
even if) it can be configured with them.
With zsh (my preferred shell) one can control if dot-files should be
expanded or not with 'setopt globdots'/'setopt noglobdots'.
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