8 June 2014

Color Terminal on freeBSD/OpenBSD



This is how to get color on your freeBSD or openBSD terminal.

for freeBSD user please follow
#cd /usr/ports/misc/gnuls
#make install clean

for openBSD user please follow
#pkg_add -r http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.1/packages/amd64/gnuls-4.1p2.tgz

$vi ~/.profile (if you are using csh) or $vi ~/.bash_profile

FreeBSD users:
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alias ls="gnuls --color =always"
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OpenBSD users:
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alias ls="gls --color=always"
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