gmd@pulsar.mv.COM (George MacDonald) (03/19/90)
Here is little q&d ksh function which colorizes the output from ls in the
following way.
Directories - cyan
Executable files - red
regular files - white
function ls
{
/bin/ls -CF $* | sed -e 's;\([a-zA-Z0-9._+-]*\)/;ESC[36m\1ESC[0m ;g' -e 's;\([a-zA-Z0-9._+-]*\)\*;ESC[1mESC[31m\1ESC[0m ;g'
}
I removed the real escape characters and put in their place "ESC", so just
edit the file to put the escape characters back. Remember in vi insert mode
type control-v then escape to put an escape in the file. I put this in
my .kshrc file and in my .profile I set the prompt to green with
PS1=\(`hostname`-$LOGNAME\)
PS1="ESC[32m$PS1ESC[0m"
export PS1
In case you want to play with the colors the values are
30 - Black (Not much use, unless you use reverse video &| a background
color as well)
31 - red
32 - green
33 - brown
34 - blue
35 - purple
36 - cyan
Preceding these with the bold enable command sequence (ESC[1m) yields
30 - grey
31 - light red
32 - light green
33 - yellow
34 - light blue
35 - light purple
36 - light cyan
If you want to get real outrageous then you can also set the background
charater cell color with ESC[4?m, where ? is 0-6 yeilding the colors above.
Enjoy,
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