No color for directories on OSX 10.8.2

[jperichon]

Hi,

My directories are not displayed in color.
I'm using OSX 10.8.2. I have tried with iTerm2 and Terminal app (TERM=xterm-256color).

Thanks!

[Emantor]

https://github.com/trapd00r/LS_COLORS

[sorrell]

After more hours than it should have taken for me to debug this, I think I found the solution here. In your terminal window, export the following:

export CLICOLOR_FORCE=1

If this makes your dirs colored, then go ahead an add it to your .*rc.

Nerd detail: What happens is that the -G flag is equivalent to CLICOLOR, but I believe that only colorizes tty output. The ls++ script takes piped output, and -G & CLICOLOR don't color ALL output. CLICOLOR_FORCE takes care of colorizing ALL (including piped) output. (man ls for your own indulgence)

The author should/may consider adding this info to the Mac instructions.

[jperichon]

Thank you for the time you spent on this... It works!

[obxhdx]

@sorrell Your approach works, but it doesn't take into account custom dircolors. I'm using trapd00r/LS_COLORS and here is the output of ls -l:

And the output of ls++ after the CLICOLOR_FORCE workaround: