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Re: How to make the colors different for a symbol link pointing to a fil
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Eric Blake |
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Re: How to make the colors different for a symbol link pointing to a file and symbol link pointing to a dir? |
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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:47:27 -0700 |
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According to Peng Yu on 12/30/2009 7:30 PM:
> Use dircolors (as in adding the line:
>
> eval "`dircolors path/to/preferences`"
>
>> http://linux.die.net/man/5/dir_colors
>
>> 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?
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.
>
>> 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.
Then that is probably a feature request that has not yet been implemented.
Would you like to try your hand at coding it?
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Eric Blake address@hidden
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- How to make the colors different for a symbol link pointing to a file and symbol link pointing to a dir?, Peng Yu, 2009/12/30
- Re: How to make the colors different for a symbol link pointing to a file and symbol link pointing to a dir?, Pádraig Brady, 2009/12/30
- Re: How to make the colors different for a symbol link pointing to a file and symbol link pointing to a dir?, Eric Blake, 2009/12/30
- Re: How to make the colors different for a symbol link pointing to a file and symbol link pointing to a dir?, Pádraig Brady, 2009/12/30
- Re: How to make the colors different for a symbol link pointing to a file and symbol link pointing to a dir?, Peng Yu, 2009/12/30
- Re: How to make the colors different for a symbol link pointing to a file and symbol link pointing to a dir?, Eric Blake, 2009/12/30
- Re: How to make the colors different for a symbol link pointing to a file and symbol link pointing to a dir?, Chris Jones, 2009/12/31
- Re: How to make the colors different for a symbol link pointing to a file and symbol link pointing to a dir?, Eric Blake, 2009/12/31
- Re: How to make the colors different for a symbol link pointing to a file and symbol link pointing to a dir?, Chris Jones, 2009/12/31
- Re: How to make the colors different for a symbol link pointing to a file and symbol link pointing to a dir?, Peng Yu, 2009/12/31
- dircolors "LINK target" bug?, Chris Jones, 2009/12/31