I was talking to someone over on MacSlash and they commented that their 'ls' command didn't output in color. Hmmph...mine did. I looked and found that I had some "carry-overs" in my .cshrc file from my SGI box. To give yourself colorized 'ls' add the following lines to the end of your .cshrc (if you are using tcsh as your default shell):
alias ls 'ls-F'You can change the colors and/or styles for different types of files by using the variables on the second line. Linux StepbyStep provides a good reference guide on color setting.
setenv LS_COLORS 'di=35:fi=0:ex=31:or=90'
set color
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