Mac OSX: Cannot color broken symlinks

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#macos #terminal #colors #bashprofile

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ANSWER 1

Install Homebrew first.

Install GNU coreutils: brew install coreutils
Put the following in your ~/.bash_profile: eval $(gdircolors) alias ls="gls --color=auto"

Open a new shell, and broken links will be highlighted like on Linux.

I don't think it's possible – the man page for ls doesn't list a color slot for broken symlinks.

find -L . -type l -ls