Re: Enableing color LS on consoke sessions
On Mon 26 Mar 01, 12:37 AM, onderste@wanadoo.nl said:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 01:02:05PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> > alias lard='ls -Flard --color=auto'
> >
> > the "auto" keyword is nice cause it doesn't frick up your listing when
> > piping to more or less. i also use my own color scheme
>
> it's nice indeed, except when doing e.g. a ls -la > listing.txt,
> therefore i prefer --color=tty
why is that bad? i get exactly what i should get -- no color codes or wierd
stufff.
"auto" turns on ls colors only when ls is attached to a terminal. it knows
when it's attached to a pipe (and i presume a redirect?)
pete
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