Subject: Re: NETBSD vs. Linux 'ls' command
To: None <davidm@hous.inmet.com, netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG, port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Max Bell <mbell@europa.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/02/1996 07:48:00
>From: "David Martin" <davidm@hous.inmet.com>
>Linix has a nice feature such that when using the 'ls' command directorys, 
>links, etc. show up in different colors. Does BSD support that feature. Its
>nice to be able to tell what something is at a glance!

BSD does not natively support colorized ls, but "ls -F" will append a marker
character to the end of directory entries to tell you what they are -- "/" for
directories, "*" for executables, "@" for symbolic, etc.  If you really want
the colorized version, it should be possible to port it (if someone hasn't
done it already), but I'm not sure how hard it would be.

Max