# Slackware color ls profile script for /bin/sh-like shells. # Set up LS_OPTIONS environment variable. # This contains extra command line options to use with ls. # The default ones are: # -F = show '/' for dirs, '*' for executables, etc. # -T 0 = don't trust tab spacing when formatting ls output. # -b = better support for special characters OPTIONS="-F -b -T 0" # COLOR needs one of these arguments: # 'auto' colorizes output to ttys, but not pipes. # 'always' adds color characters to all output. # 'never' shuts colorization off. COLOR=auto # This section shouldn't require any user adjustment since it is # simply setting the LS_OPTIONS variable using the information # already given above: LS_OPTIONS=" $OPTIONS --color=$COLOR "; export LS_OPTIONS; unset COLOR unset OPTIONS # Set up aliases to use color ls by default. A few additional # aliases like 'dir', 'vdir', etc, are some ancient artifacts # from 1992 or so... possibly they should be disabled, but maybe # someone out there is actually using them? :-) # Assume shell aliases are supported. Ash is going to freak out # when it sees zsh syntax anyway, so whatever. alias ls='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS'; alias dir='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=vertical'; alias vdir='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=long'; alias d=dir; alias v=vdir; # Just for fun, here are the old sh/ash style shell functions. # this script isn't currently working with ash (and makes some noisy # error messages), but perhaps these will still be of use to # someone... #ls () { /bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS "$@" ; }; #dir () { /bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=vertical "$@" ; }; #vdir () { /bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=long "$@" ; }; #d () { dir "$@" ; }; #v () { vdir "$@" ; }; # Set up the LS_COLORS environment: if [ -f $HOME/.dir_colors ]; then eval `/bin/dircolors -b $HOME/.dir_colors` elif [ -f /etc/DIR_COLORS ]; then eval `/bin/dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS` else eval `/bin/dircolors -b` fi