http://themattreid.com/wordpress MySQL DBA | Linux'er Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:22:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://themattreid.com/wordpress/2010/04/26/how-to-get-colored-output-from-ls-on-solaris10/ http://themattreid.com/wordpress/2010/04/26/how-to-get-colored-output-from-ls-on-solaris10/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:04:17 +0000 admin http://themattreid.com/wordpress/?p=306 For all of those linux users out there that have moved over to, or tried out, Solaris10 or OpenSolaris because they heard the tales of how MySQL is faster on Solaris… or perhaps you wanted to learn how to use Sol10 for the great features of Zones or the ZFS filesystem? Regardless of why you’re on it you are probably wondering why Linux has colored output of filenames and directories but Solaris does not. The … Read the rest

]]> For all of those linux users out there that have moved over to, or tried out, Solaris10 or OpenSolaris because they heard the tales of how MySQL is faster on Solaris… or perhaps you wanted to learn how to use Sol10 for the great features of Zones or the ZFS filesystem? Regardless of why you’re on it you are probably wondering why Linux has colored output of filenames and directories but Solaris does not. The question of ‘why?’ isn’t important, but how to enable colors is. It’s very simple, and here’s how I fixed it. This is a result of digging through multiple semi-related links on Google.

1. Download all packages from SunFreeware.com
   • dependency: libintl-3.4.0-sol10-x86-local
   • dependency: libiconv-1.13.1-sol10-x86-local
   • dependency: gmp-4.2.1-sol10-x86-local
   • dependency: gcc-3.4.6-sol10-x86-local or libgcc-3.4.6-sol10-x86-local depending on your system needs
   • coreutils-8.4-sol10-x86-local
2. Install ‘coreutils’ dependency packages using the command “pkgadd -d [package_name]
3. Install ‘coreutils’ packages using the command “pkgadd -d coreutils-8.4-sol10-x86-local
4. Enable color aliases in your rc file: “alias ls=’/usr/local/bin/ls –color=auto’”

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