Substituting ls with ls -FGP system-wide?

[ph0enix]

I would like to substitute the ls command with 'ls -FGP' for all users and shells. How should I go about doing that?

Thanks!

J.

[DutchDaemon]

/etc/profile

alias ls='ls -FGP'

Inform your users, especially the ones working with symlinks ..

[Mel_Flynn]

That only works for bourne-type shells. Use /etc/csh.cshrc for csh. Note that aliases can be overridden by users. If that's a concern, then move /bin/ls to /libexec/ls and make /bin/ls a shell script:

#!/bin/sh
exec /libexec/ls -FGP $*

Which you will have to do with after each installworld. Probably easier to maintain a local patch to ls, that will set -FGP, like:

--- ls.c 2008-04-03 19:57:46.000000000 -0800
+++ /tmp/ls.c 2009-03-07 07:38:08.000000000 -0900
@@ -340,6 +340,14 @@
}
argc -= optind;
argv += optind;
+ /* Force -FGP */
+ f_type = 1;
+ f_slash = 0;
+ setenv("CLICOLOR", "", 1);
+ fts_options &= ~FTS_COMFOLLOW;
+ fts_options &= ~FTS_LOGICAL;
+ fts_options |= FTS_PHYSICAL;
+ /* End force -FGP */

/* Root is -A automatically unless -I. */
if (!f_listdot && getuid() == (uid_t)0 && !f_noautodot)