Cat a directory

[Chris Pressey]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:01:15 -0400
Damian Gerow <damian at sentex.net> wrote:

> Thus spake Chris Pressey (cpressey at catseye.mine.nu) [22/09/03 11:54]:
> > Also, I believe 'GNU ls', in the ports, supports coloured directory
> > listings.
> 
> As does FreeBSD's ls.  From 'man 1 ls':
> 
>     -G		Enable colorized output.  This option is equivalent to
> 		defining CLICOLOR in the environment.  (See below.)

Yes, but actually, I was mistaken; neither FreeBSD's ls nor GNU ls seems
to support coloured directory listings in the style the OP indicated:

> [Mikael Karlsson]
> As it would make finding certain files easier by coloring them
> differently depending on their ending.

I can't find any way to get either of these ls programs to colour based
on (say) sh-style regexps.  But there's probably a program out there
somewhere that does...

-Chris