Re: DIR_COLORS

From: Wayne Topa (brittman_at_capital.net)
Date: 07/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:26:05 -0400
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    Michael B Allen(mba2000@ioplex.com) is reported to have said:
    > Thomas Adam said:
    > > --- Michael B Allen <mba2000@ioplex.com> wrote:
    > >> Would anyone happen to know why?
    > >
    > > eval `dircolors -b`
    > >
    > > has always been what has worked for me:
    > >
    > > [n6tadam@station n6tadam]$ unset LS_COLORS
    > > [n6tadam@station n6tadam]$ eval $(dircolors -b)
    > > [n6tadam@station n6tadam]$ echo $LS_COLORS
    >
    > That's basically what I was doing:
    >
    > eval `dircolors --sh /etc/DIR_COLORS`
    >
    > where /etc/DIR_COLORS was stolen from Red Hat. The --sh option is an alias
    > for -b. If I run the above on the commandline it works as advertised. But
    > when executed in /etc/profile it does not work. It exports LS_COLORS= but
    > the value is empty. I can see this by adding "env > /tmp/out" immediately
    > after the eval command and looking at /tmp/out. Maybe some environment
    > variable needs to be set like TERM=xterm.
    >
    > >
    > > [..output snipped..]
    > >
    > > You can uncomment the use of "eval `dircolors -b`" in ~/.bashrc
    >
    > I did. Also, noteworthy that if I change that line to "eval `dircolors -b
    > /etc/DIR_COLORS` it works. Of course it only works for me so it's still
    > not satisfactory.
    >

    I have had this around for years and it still works. Grom an old
    /etc/dir_colors file

    #you can copy this file to .dir_colors in your $HOME directory to override
    # the system defaults.
    so i did that and them modified it to suit my tastes. Then added this to
    my .bash_profile

    # set up the color-ls environment variables:
    if [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/zsh" ]; then
      eval `dircolors -z ~/.dircolors`
    elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ash" ]; then
      eval `dircolors -s ~/.dircolors`
    else
      eval `dircolors -b ~/.dircolors`
    fi

    HTH 

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