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storm_rider
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 Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 11:16 am Post subject: bash: dircolors: command not found |
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I get | Code: | | bash: dircolors: command not found |
everytime i open a terminal... and my colours aren't being evaluated... I have some colour with ls but not as they are set out in my DIR_COLORS file.
when i execute dircolors from the command line its outputs the contents of /etc/DIR_COLORS (as expected) ...
Any help with this would be appreciated - I have searched extensively and its becoming quite annoying |
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nightm4re
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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are you having trouble with anything else?
i did a "which dircolors" and got it in /bin, so then i used qpkg to figure out what package put it there..
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~ $ qpkg -f /bin/dircolors
sys-apps/coreutils *
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so either check /bin to see if its there, then check your path (although that should be fine if you are actualy getting into a shell). If none of those come up with anything, maybe try re-emerging coreutils.
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storm_rider
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:10 pm Post subject: No Joy |
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yeah dircolors is there in /bin - as i said previously it works fine from the shell...
I reemerged coreutils - no luck there either...
if i remove the line
| Code: | | eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS` |
in my .bashrc
the message
| Code: | | bash: dircolors: command not found |
goes away
but this is not really what i'm looking for as my colours are not evaluated... |
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nightm4re
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:27 pm Post subject: Re: No Joy |
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if i remove the line
| Code: | | eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS` |
in my .bashrc
the message
| Code: | | bash: dircolors: command not found |
goes away
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yeah, forgot to put that in my previous reply. i knew you could do that, but like you said, doesnt fix the problem.
the only thing i can think of trying right now is seeing if your path is set appropriately at that point in your bashrc. try sticking an echo $PATH right above the eval line. of course don't leave it in there, cuz it breaks scp (as noted in the header of the stock .bashrc.. hehe).
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blue.sca
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | blue blue: which dircolors
/usr/bin/dircolors |
perhaps try giving the full path...
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