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Xoundboy
Asked: 2011-09-25 10:02:03 +0800 CST

how to enable ls highlighting in Debian

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I'm a Centos user and have just started my first Debian install. In Centos the ls command lists output in color to indicate whether an item is a file, directory, symlink and if a file/directory is world-writable.

Here's an example...

Centos directory listing in color

How can I enable this color display in Debian? Thanks

debian

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    alias ls='ls --color=auto'

    Put it in your .bashrc

    Or if you prefer create a file in your profile named .bash_aliases and put there your alias (by default in debian's .bashrc that gets sourced)

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  2. Under Debian and derivatives (example: raspbian for Raspberry Pi), if you edit the /root/.bashrc file you'll find some line commented about "ls colorization". Just uncomment them and run "source /root/.bashrc" or relogin:

    # You may uncomment the following lines if you want `ls' to be colorized:
export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto'
eval "`dircolors`"
alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS'
alias ll='ls $LS_OPTIONS -l'
alias l='ls $LS_OPTIONS -lA'
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