From: dbe@wgn.net ($Bill Luebkert) Subject: Re: `Color ls' from a bash$ window 22 Oct 1997 20:02:13 -0700 Message-ID: <344E7D10.FDC6785D.cygnus.gnu-win32@wgn.net> References: <1.5.4.16.19971022084320.25bf6252@pop1.ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Victor Schneider wrote: > > At no extra cost, you can get your bash$ window ls listings colorized to > show directories and executable files. The trick is to store a .bashrc > file in your root directory. Under W95/WNT, the root directory is either > c:\ or c:\root (and you can `set HOME=/root' in your autoexec.bat). > > Enclosed is a .bashrc file that you can use: > ============================================================================ > alias ls="ls -CF --color" > alias dir="ls -CF --color" > alias less="less -aCMrsi" > ulimit -c 0 > export MM_RUNASROOT=1 In my experience is is a bad idea to alias a command to itself (with args), it has caused me problems in the past and I have quite doing it. Alias l to ls and m to less or some such. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles / ) /--< o // // http://www.wgn.net/~dbe/ -/-' /___/_<_