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

[Eric Blake]

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According to Peng Yu on 12/30/2009 4:09 PM:
> alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
> 
> The above alias doesn't distinguish the color for a symbol link
> pointing to a file and a symbol link pointing to a dir. I'm wondering
> if there is a way to configure it to do so?

Use dircolors (as in adding the line:

eval "`dircolors path/to/preferences`"

in your login scripts) to change the settings used by ls --color=auto.  In
this case, your version of path/to/preferences should contain the setting of:

LINK target

rather than the default of LINK 01;36.  That will then tell ls to color
symlinks according to what they point to.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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