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Re: dircolors utility


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: dircolors utility
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:55:44 -0700
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According to Anna Barnes on 11/11/2008 5:02 AM:
> Running dircolors on Fedora Core 6 Linux Dell server.
> 
> I have placed the following in my .bash_profile.
> eval 'dircolors $HOME/.dir_colors'

That should be:

eval "`dircolors $HOME/.dir_colors`"

Note the back-ticks, not single quotes.

- --
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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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