The test that ls employs for determining if a file should be given some certain kind of highlighting when listed currently uses strncmp() to compare the last few characters of a file's name against the extensions found in $LS_COLORS.
Why is fnmatch() not being used to do this test? As it is now, the '*' can only be given as a prefix and is just part of a big charade. It also makes matching things like *.r[0-9][0-9] for parts in a rar-archive set impossible without listing them explicitly in your dircolors file. I assume that there is some higher reason for this, as a patch to use fnmatch() instead of strncmp() is incredibly trivial, but I fail to see what it is. Thanks. nikolai _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
