From: pki@cri.dk (Paul Kirkaas) Subject: Re: `Color ls' from a bash$ window 23 Oct 1997 05:35:33 -0700 Message-ID: References: <344E7D10.FDC6785D@wgn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On 22-Oct-97 "$Bill Luebkert" wrote: > Victor Schneider wrote: >> >> At no extra cost, you can get your bash$ window ls listings colorized >> Enclosed is a .bashrc file that you can use: >> ======================================================================== >> alias ls="ls -CF --color" > 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. Or, what I do, which works okay, is to use functions -- like: ............ function fcd () { pushd . > /dev/null ; \cd $1 ; PS1="$LOGNAME$ANGLE " ; setlabels ; } alias cd=fcd ............... Note of couse the escaped \cd in the function call. Paul -- Paul Kirkaas pki@cri.dk - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".