Re: color ls

[Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca]

  Michael> I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder
  Michael> why the old one isn't removed automatically? Is there a reason for
  Michael> this?

  Wichert>  Some monitors make text unreadable (cheap laptops for example)
  Wichert> when you use colors. Maybe a postinst-script could ask if color-ls
  Wichert> should be the new default, move ls to ls-normal and make ls a link
  Wichert> to color-ls.

Don't worry. It is one and the same binary, bin/ls, which has no color as the
default. You have use the --color option to enable color.

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd