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 7:34 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
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> According to Peng Yu on 12/30/2009 4:09 PM:
>> alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
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>> 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?
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> Use dircolors (as in adding the line:
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> 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?

> 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:
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> LINK target

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.

> 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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