Re: No effect from alias ls = 'ls --color'

[Bill Nall <bill nall worldnet att net>]

You can't have spaces around the equals sign in the alias command.  It must
read:
alias ls='ls --color'.

Bill Nall

Richard Dybowski wrote:

> I have added the line
>
> alias ls = 'ls --color'
>
> to the end of the .bashrc file in my home directory, but after logging out
> and logging back in, running ls -l does not produce different colors for
> different file types. However, if I run
>
> ls --color -l
>
> from the prompt then the required colors appear. Replacing 'ls --color' in
> .bashrc with either 'ls --color=auto' or 'ls --color=always' does not get
> round the problem. What am I doing wrong? Should I be modifying a bashrc
> file located elsewhere?
>
> Richard
>
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