RE: [cobalt-users] Colour telnet session

["Sean Chester" <seanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i have a raq3 and the line  alias ls='ls --color=auto'  was already in my
.profile
it was just a matter of setting my terminal emulation.


-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Lovell
Sent: 01 November 2000 15:59
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Colour telnet session


Brian Curtis wrote:
>
> Well, as long as your telnet/shell client supports a colored session (ANSI
> Color & exports the proper term type), you can alias ls like this:
>
>  alias ls='ls -hF --color=always'

I always use

alias ls='ls --color=auto'

That will allow you to pipe ls through a pager and not see
the raw ANSI escape sequences.


Jeff

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Jeff Lovell
Cobalt Networks, Inc.

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