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SomeoneWithAPurpose

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Registered: 2009-04-02

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How do I make urxvt display colors on directories?

Hey, I have a question.

How do I display directories with a blue color in urxvt? I wanna be able to determine whether or not something is a directory or a file.

Thanks.

bender02

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Registered: 2007-02-04

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Re: How do I make urxvt display colors on directories?

How about 'ls --color'?

SomeoneWithAPurpose

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Registered: 2009-04-02

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Re: How do I make urxvt display colors on directories?

Oh nice, yeah that was exactly what I was looking for.

Now how do I save that configuration so ls will always use --color?

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

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Re: How do I make urxvt display colors on directories?

If your shell is bash, then a line like "alias ls='ls --color'" in your ~/.bashrc would do.

SomeoneWithAPurpose

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Re: How do I make urxvt display colors on directories?

With or without double quotes?

And I think i'm running bash... It says bash-3,2# at the prompt.

Wra!th

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Registered: 2009-03-31

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Re: How do I make urxvt display colors on directories?

With or without double quotes?

And I think i'm running bash... It says bash-3,2# at the prompt.

in your ~/.bashrc add

alias ls='ls --color=auto'

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SomeoneWithAPurpose

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Registered: 2009-04-02

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Re: How do I make urxvt display colors on directories?

Alright thanks guys.

But

alias ls="ls --color"

worked too.

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

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Re: How do I make urxvt display colors on directories?

Well, reading 'man ls' would tell you that there are three possibilities (pretty self explanatory):
--color=never, --color=auto, --color=always
and when you use only '--color', it's assumed that it's '--color=always' that you want.