File: ls-color.zip
       Author: Talin
      Release: Aug 5th, 1997
Compatibility: PR1
     Location: contrib/util/shell
  Description: 'ls' but with directory names in color.
        Notes: 

This is a hacked version of the GNU 'ls' tool that comes with the BeOS distribution.

I have modified it to display the names directories, symlinks, and program files
in various colors, using the ANSI escape sequences for color control. Currently
the colors are hard-coded.

The color-coding is enabled only when you specify the -z or -Z flag on the command
line. I chose the letter 'z' because it was one of the few letters not already
used. The 'Z' option turns on coloring of directories, symlinks and executables;
The 'z' option turns on coloring for directories and symlinks only. The default
is no coloring, otherwise the use of this program might mess up shell scripts which
attempt to parse the output of a directory listing. I suggest putting the following
line in your profile:

	alias ls='ls -Z'

I'm sure that there are other versions of 'ls' that use a more standard way of
turning on and off color, and which use environment variables to control which
colors are used. However, I don't know where any of them are, so this will have
to do for now.

Feel free to modify this program and re-upload it to the Be FTP site. Since this
is GNU code, and I only modified a few lines of it, I can't really claim it as
my own. But I'd be interested if anyone could come up with further visual
enhancements. (But keep it subtle!)

-- Talin

Talin@ACM.org