Re: ls question
Ian> The colour ls may work more or less OK for you, but the design and
Ian> implementation is terrible !
So? The xterm source code doesn't win a beauty context either, but that
doesn't stop the program from being distributed.
A directory listing with colours reveals more information.
Also, it's a marketing thing and a nice aha effect.
Ian> Fancy requiring the user to source funny (shell-specific!) things in
Ian> their .profile, or reading literal escape sequences from a file in
Ian> /etc !
What is so fancy about an eval 'dircolors' statement?
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Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
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