Listings Question About Ping

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 12/22/2011 6:22 PM, jdow wrote:
>
> To be honest I forget whether it is "alias ls="ls --color"" or
> "alias ls="ls --color=auto"". I suspect it's the former, at least for
> root. This is one of the first things I doctor with things like:
> alias dir="ls -lrt --color=auto"
> alias ls="ls --color=auto"
> alias la="ls --color=auto -a"
> alias ll="ls -l --color=auto"
> alias lla="ls -l --color=auto -A"
> alias lss="ls"
>
> and so forth.
>
> It seems to be setup in the first account you make. Subsequent 
> accounts seem
> to be pretty barren for their .bashrc. Check (ls -a) the files in 
> /etc/skel
> for what gets put in for most new users. Now I am wondering where the
> colorized stuff comes from.
>
> {^_^}

jdow:

Many thanks ... especially since I am unable to do any legwork at the 
moment.

I am definitely going to make some changes when I get my machine back.

Paul