From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Llz4R-00053Y-PQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:21:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3521EE03AF; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.144]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF28E03ED for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so1185649qwc.10 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:21:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UulnzX9nruxt2p4pA0qG/CTFMdxE4+89+iLJXwfUE+Y=; b=Fu5Db08pAnmU5z8K5BRP7nWy3qamlW2eIjloy1CKzj6z7Ja1ALbeD/oeJ6JqT+jRss Zeh5y3eEpXDBpRnO0Qr9C/TPS7JNk8SSbcg1krlIDDnMcZnFuVJYeicBkTGhxsZdSSb0 FJzIKh2XRQ31WZeZ1dO2cz5F+6Q/tChS/xnlA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=G7IAMKFw/5EFmMZnm9FLxJSZ5Z52pq1TpAojBCM0FmYz0F7yNIp7PXY+8GjB18ypvg 5rR/OwFBSRW66w3RZdbAhDO3GtPC5+KC+KIGs5QIMQSIEGvMYPY3a931snFKPFzUsaqE vWUmDT4/4ZslBEzng2fS6YO2ywn658321njPc= Received: by 10.224.60.81 with SMTP id o17mr10108211qah.227.1237872061833; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?4.230.105.41? (dialup-4.230.105.41.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.105.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm10950388ywp.51.2009.03.23.22.20.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49C86DB7.2070503@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:20:55 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? References: <200903211917.56523.mdiehl@diehlnet.com> <5bdc1c8b0903221323o47e10137l9c6db04802cce4bd@mail.gmail.com> <20090322204520.0911c480@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <5bdc1c8b0903221502w13c6a31chfe638acfd4588044@mail.gmail.com> <20090322230221.20380328@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <49C6D740.504@gmail.com> <20090323005312.49bd7dd5@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <49C6FF71.3010309@gmail.com> <1237779541.4874.1.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <49C82224.7000502@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6c3456f8-4a80-4eef-921b-cabbc0995e26 X-Archives-Hash: 3099a9070d5904be98d5262cf0499361 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > 2009/3/23 Dale : > >> Oh, OK. If it is set up to add that >> option, how do you tell it not to use it? >> > > alias ls='/bin/ls --color' > alias l='ls -l' > > With these aliases in your .bashrc (or whatever is appropriate in your > environment), you can now use 'ls' and 'l'. Of course, you already had > 'ls' (namely /bin/ls). > > If you simply type 'ls' then you are using the alias and you get > colour output. If you don't want colour output you use '/bin/ls' (the > actual binary). Typing 'l' basically runs '/bin/ls --color -l'. If you > don't want that then you don't use 'l'. > > > Oh, Cool.. I see now. So basically you sort of change the command as well. Now that command that someone else posted makes sense too. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)