Hi,

I'm currently fiddling with dircolors to 1) understand it and 2) have a nice
shell.

I've googled around, and what I grasp is: Slackware works differently than
the other distros.

What I found so far. In any other distro (Debian, Knoppix, Gentoo,
Mandrake, ...), you do the following to define individual colors for ls:

$ dircolors -p > my_colours.txt

Now you edit my_colours.txt, which has one entry per line, and eventually
you change some of the color codes. Say for example I want yellow
directories instead of dark blue ones, I replace DIR 01;34 by DIR 01;33...
and so on. After editing the file, I apply the changes with:

$ eval `dircolors /path/to/my_colours.txt`

And once I'm happy with the result:

$ dircolors my_colours.txt >> ~/.bashrc

I tried this on a Knoppix (Murphy's law: I only happen to have two
Slackwares and one Slack-derivate, Vector, on my box, hence KnoppixD),
and it works OK.

Question: what would be the orthodox way to do that thing on a Slack? The
only info I found was that things work differently on Slack. But no article
mentioned how.

Colorful cheers,

Niki Kovacs
--
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one frequently goes ranting on and on at
ball-breaking length. (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,
first draft)

Kiki Novak wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently fiddling with dircolors to 1) understand it and 2) have a
> nice shell.
>
> I've googled around, and what I grasp is: Slackware works differently than
> the other distros.
>
> What I found so far. In any other distro (Debian, Knoppix, Gentoo,
> Mandrake, ...), you do the following to define individual colors for ls:
>
> $ dircolors -p > my_colours.txt
>
> Now you edit my_colours.txt, which has one entry per line, and eventually
> you change some of the color codes. Say for example I want yellow
> directories instead of dark blue ones, I replace DIR 01;34 by DIR 01;33...
> and so on. After editing the file, I apply the changes with:
>
> $ eval `dircolors /path/to/my_colours.txt`
>
> And once I'm happy with the result:
>
> $ dircolors my_colours.txt >> ~/.bashrc
>
> I tried this on a Knoppix (Murphy's law: I only happen to have two
> Slackwares and one Slack-derivate, Vector, on my box, hence KnoppixD),
> and it works OK.
>
> Question: what would be the orthodox way to do that thing on a Slack? The
> only info I found was that things work differently on Slack. But no
> article mentioned how.
>
> Colorful cheers,
>
> Niki Kovacs

I'll answer that myself, because I just found out:

man dir_colors (!= dircolors!!!)

NK
--
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ball-breaking length. (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,
first draft)

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Hi! I am writing an article about how to install linux and yet I am
having problems getting slackware installed on my boyfriend's
computer. Can anybody help me?

Hi! I am writing an article about linux and I was wondering if
anyone could tell me the difference between Slackware and Debian?

Kiki Novak <mickey@mouse.com> wrote:
>Hi! I am writing an article about linux and I was wondering if
>anyone could tell me the difference between Slackware and Debian?

Slackware is spelled with 9 letters, and Debian with only 6.

Have any more dumb questions?

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