Adding Color to ls ?

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Adding Color to ls ?

I just got started back to the terminal and I'd like to use color in the ls,
I used the command export CLICOLOR=YES and it work the first time only in one color blue for directories and black for .files, OK, Now I want to put the
CLICOLOR in my .bash_profile, What line do I use?

Posted on Sep 16, 2005 6:22 AM

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Sep 16, 2005 12:48 PM in response to FVS

I may be wrong, (I am somewhat new to this), but I'd say your .bash_profile is a fine place for changing settings like that. Again, I could be wrong, but I submit that you should just put it, ( export CLICOLOR=YES), at the end of your ~/.bash_profile.

On second thought, depending on what types of terminals you remotely connect to this machine/account with, you may want to have this change for all bash sessions. Trying not to overcomplicate things too much, you can put something to the effect of:

# test for a .bashrc file and source it if it exists if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi

into your ~/.bash_profile instead, and put the export CLICOLOR=YES line into ~/.bashrc.

Worked for me. Write back with any questions or problems.
Cheers, Joel

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