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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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