Re: color ls (fwd)
Answer from Jim Meyering (GNU fileutils mainstream maintainer):
> | I copied this to Jim Meyering hoping that he might be able to answer
> | your question Michael.
> |
> | Michael Meskes writes:
> | > Erick Branderhorst writes:
> | > > This file is in the origianl fileutils source name: dircolors.hin
> | > > but is not installed as you might have noticed.
> | >
> | > What's the reason for this behaviour?
>
> I changed dircolors (to be different from the original slackware version)
> so that it doesn't read any fixed-filename config file. So it no longer
> reads /etc/DIRCOLORS or $HOME/.whatever-that-name-was.
>
> I made that change to maintain some measure of orthogonality. Otherwise,
> dircolors would have been the sole program to do such a thing in all of
> the fileutils/textutils/sh-utils.
>
> As you probably noticed, I added the --print-data-base option to print
> the default, compiled-in database. So now, the config file must be
> specified when dircolors is run.
>
> % dircolors --help
> Usage: dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]
> Output commands to set the LS_COLOR environment variable.
>
> Determine format of output:
> -b, --sh, --bourne-shell output Bourne shell code to set LS_COLOR
> -c, --csh, --c-shell output C shell code to set LS_COLOR
> -p, --print-data-base output defaults
> --help display this help and exit
> --version output version information and exit
Erick
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