Re: tlug: ls colorful

[John Seebach <jseebach@example.com>]

> A possible improvement would be
>    alias ls="ls --color=auto"
> which will disable color output if the output is not a terminal.
> 
> Shimpei.
 
Right, Except then if I want to look at a really big directory and pipe the
output through more, I lose my colored output (more's not a terminal).

Here's what I do to have my cake and eat it, too:

	export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto'
	export LS_PG_OPTIONS='--color'
	eval `dircolors /etc/lscolors`     # I had to change the colours 
								# because I couldn't read 
								# blue on black very well
	alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS'
	alias l='ls $LS_OPTIONS -l'
	alias la='ls $LS_OPTIONS -A'
	alias ll='ls $LS_PG_OPTIONS -l $* | more'
	alias lla='ls $LS_PG_OPTIONS -lA $* | more' 

There's probably a better way to do this, of course. 

john
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