Re: redirect of "ls --color" causes problems

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

Lukas Ruf <ruf@rawip.org> writes:
> using tcsh on debian sid, I defined an alias for ls
>
> alias ls 'ls --color -F !*'

'--color=auto' might be better for your purposes; it only inserts the
color magic if its output is connected to a terminal.

> I would like to make use of the color feature however I would like
> also to make use of redirections without unalias'ing ls always.

You could also use /bin/ls explicitly to avoid the alias.

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David Maze         dmaze@debian.org      http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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