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 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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