why files do not follow LS_COLORS?

why files do not follow LS_COLORS?

[Leonardo Barbosa]

Hi,

I am using zsh and i trying to set "ls" colors like this. Files are
colored, but they do not follow the colors i set.  Curiously enough,
during file completion they do.
Any idea?

I am using OS X Lion

Thanks in advance

--L

export LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=05;33:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:
so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01r=40;31 ;01:ex=01;32.tar

if ls --color &>/dev/null; then
LS_OPTIONS="--color" # gnu (linux)
else
LS_OPTIONS="-G" # mac
fi
export LS_OPTIONS

# ls aliases
alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS -F'

Re: why files do not follow LS_COLORS?

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Leonardo Barbosa wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using zsh and i trying to set "ls" colors like this. Files are 
> colored, but they do not follow the colors i set.  Curiously enough, 
> during file completion they do.  Any idea?
>
> I am using OS X Lion

LS_COLORS works during file completion only because Zsh uses that 
variable.  The external utility `ls` generally has LS_COLORS only on GNU 
systems, which doesn't include OSX.

osx-server$ man ls | grep -c LS_COLORS
0
linux-box$ man ls | grep -c LS_COLORS
1

-- 
Best,
Ben

Re: why files do not follow LS_COLORS?

[Alex Satrapa]

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On 16 Mar 2012, at 22:39, Leonardo Barbosa wrote:

> I am using OS X Lion

> export LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=05;33:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:
> so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01r=40;31 ;01:ex=01;32.tar

You need to set LSCOLORS for Mac OS X Lion. Check out the LSCOLORS / LS_COLORS converter here: http://geoff.greer.fm/lscolors/

HTH
HAND
Alex Satrapa


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Re: why files do not follow LS_COLORS?

[S. Cowles]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Leonardo Barbosa wrote:

> I am using zsh and i trying to set "ls" colors like this. Files are
> colored, but they do not follow the colors i set.  Curiously enough,
> during file completion they do.
> Any idea?


another alternative is to install gnu ls.  one way to do this is install 
fink, then invoke installation of gnu ls.

Re: why files do not follow LS_COLORS?

[TJ Luoma]

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On Mar 17, 2012, at 5:49 PM, "S. Cowles" <scowles@ckhb.org> wrote:

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Leonardo Barbosa wrote:

I am using zsh and i trying to set "ls" colors like this. Files are

colored, but they do not follow the colors i set.  Curiously enough,

during file completion they do.

Any idea?



another alternative is to install gnu ls.  one way to do this is install
fink, then invoke installation of gnu ls.


Easier than Fink is to just install it from Rudix:

http://code.google.com/p/rudix/wiki/coreutils