Re: Newbie question

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Nathan E Norman (nnorman@micromuse.com) spake thusly:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 02:32:10PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > * Jason Machacek (jasonmac@mindspring.com) spake thusly:
> > > Is there any way to make the ls command permanently use the --color option?
> > 
> > You do realise that it will break any scripts that parse output of "ls",
> > yes?
> 
> Huh?  "ls --color=auto" does the right thing.

Yeah well. I did a "for i in `ls`" on a large directory once and 
ended up with a lot of files with funny names. That's probably
just me, things-that-could-never-possibly-happen happen to me all
the time...

Dima
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