[plug] ls in colour & terminal size

proXy davyd at iprimus.com.au
Wed Jun 26 16:10:24 WST 2002


On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 15:40, David White wrote:

> OK, so I'm posting an awful lot recently :( well thats because i'm new to deb.
> 1. Were are the files for changing the defualts for things. I wish to have 
> ls automaticly display out put in color, I don't like having to type in 
> '--colour=auto' all the time.

in your bashrc (~/.bashrc) add the line
alias ls='ls --color'

> 2. Can I change the res of my terminals. i.e. more columns and lines, (like 
> about the size of 800px x 600px, I know text terminals are in sizes 
> determined by lines and columns)

yes
(it involves framebuffer)

--proXy

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