Color ls on OpenBSD

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To get color ls output on OpenBSD, get a recent version of ports and then do the following:

  1. cd /usr/ports/sysutils/colorls
  2. make install
  3. set your TERM to wsvt25
  4. /usr/local/bin/colorls -G should now display similar to the GNU ls with the color option
  5. Set the appropriate alias for your shell.

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Mostafa Faridi

how to set my TERM to wsvt25
I am new user in OpenBSD

elektranox

export TERM=wsvt25

Mehdi

Hello;
Thanks for the quick info.
I am also new to BSD so would setting ports interfere with anything else? This is our main server and I dont want to change anything.

I use ls --color in ubuntu to get color ls but BSD does not have that option.

Also I can edit my .bashrc file and change it where the color ls shows up every time I log in. Is there a similar file under OpenBSD as well?

Thanks very much for your help!

Regards;

jake

Thanks for the info! I was looking in ports and i also found, /usr/ports/misc/fileutils, thats supposed to do the same thing. I don't know what the difference is.

jake

Smee again, colorls seems better. The fileutils one needs quite a few dependencies to be installed.

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