Re: How to make the colors different for a symbol link pointing to a file and symbol link pointing to a dir?

[Peng Yu]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
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> According to Peng Yu on 12/30/2009 7:30 PM:
>> Use dircolors (as in adding the line:
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>> eval "`dircolors path/to/preferences`"
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>>> http://linux.die.net/man/5/dir_colors
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>>> According to the above page, can I put the line 'LINK target' in
>>> ~/.dir_colors without calling eval "`dircolors path/to/preferences`"
>>> in the profile?
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> If your particular distro set things up so that ~/.dir_colors is sourced
> automatically, then yes.  But that is something your distro did, and not
> upstream coreutils, so I can't tell you a definitive answer.
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>>> I don't want the color of the link the same as the color of the
>>> target. I want the color of the link that points to a file different
>>> from the color of the link that points to a dir. I still want to tell
>>> that they are links, so I can not use the same color as their targets.
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> Then that is probably a feature request that has not yet been implemented.
>  Would you like to try your hand at coding it?

Do you mean that I modify the source code of coreutils? I'd like to
take a look at it. Would you please let me know which files might be
relevant?