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Color ls on OpenBSD

by mmichie

To get color ls output on OpenBSD, get a recent version of ports and then do the following:

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/colorls
make install
set your TERM to wsvt25
/usr/local/bin/colorls -G should now display similar to the GNU ls with the color option
Set the appropriate alias for your shell.

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5 Comments:

Mostafa Faridi 5 Mar, 2008

how to set my TERM to wsvt25
I am new user in OpenBSD
elektranox 20 Mar, 2008

export TERM=wsvt25
Mehdi 17 Jun, 2009

Hello;
Thanks for the quick info.
I am also new to BSD so would setting ports interfere with anything else? This is our main server and I dont want to change anything.

I use ls –color in ubuntu to get color ls but BSD does not have that option.

Also I can edit my .bashrc file and change it where the color ls shows up every time I log in. Is there a similar file under OpenBSD as well?

Thanks very much for your help!

Regards;
jake 21 Oct, 2009

Thanks for the info! I was looking in ports and i also found, /usr/ports/misc/fileutils, thats supposed to do the same thing. I don’t know what the difference is.
jake 21 Oct, 2009

Smee again, colorls seems better. The fileutils one needs quite a few dependencies to be installed.

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