Sun OS 5.10: Bash: Colors and Directory Listings

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Question

I'm on a Windows XP box. I'm using putty 0.60 to access a unix account on a server running SunOS 5.10. In my .profile file I have the command "bash" to put me into that shell upon logging in.

I know with Linux there are options to display files and directories in different colors when I issue the command "ls".

Can the same thing be set up for bash running in SunOS 5.10 ?

Thanks much in advance for any information.

Steve

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Solution

as i understand it, the solaris version of ls (which you get by default in SunOS 5.10) does not support colored output. you'd have to install the gnu version of ls, which is included in the coreutils package.

rather than explain the process of installing the package, i'll direct you to this link instead: http://tille.garrels.be/training/solaris/colorls.php

if you can't install packages on that server, you may be out of luck. hth

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