`Color ls' from a bash$ window

$Bill Luebkert dbe@wgn.net
Wed Oct 22 18:52:00 GMT 1997


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.

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