On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:49:17PM -0700, Joshua Rodman wrote: > I unexepectedly discovered some of my .ogg files were showing up with > the wrong color. I thought my filesystem was broken, or some attributes > had been set on the files, or that they were executable, or something. > > Eventually I realized that they were multiply hardlinked. > > This is not something I ever want colorized with ls. And I certainly do > not want it to ever "win" over any other color settings which are > meaningful to me. I created my color settings in the year 1995 and they > have worked since until now. > > I checked the dir_colors manpage, which made no mention of hard links. > I checked the ls manpage which made no mention of hardlinks. > > I checked the coreutils project page, which did not discuss the issue. > > Eventually I found mention of the issue in the NEWS for the source > release. It showed a recipe for special manipulation of hte variable > post-invocation.
Buh buh buh -- the recommended sed does not work. jrod...@calufrax:~/rc/bash >dircolors --version dircolors (GNU coreutils) 7.3 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by H. Peter Anvin. jrod...@calufrax:~/rc/bash >ls --version ls (GNU coreutils) 7.3 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie. jrod...@calufrax:~/rc/bash >dircolors ~/rc/dir_colors LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=01;35:ln=01;36:or=01;31:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:ex=01;32:*.dat=00;31:*.ovl=00;31:*.sys=00;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.dll=00;33:*.c=01;33:*.cpp=01;33:*.pas=01;33:*.bas=01;33:*.h=01;33:*.jpg=00;34:*.jpeg=00;34:*.png=00;34:*.gif=00;34:*.bmp=00;34:*.xbm=00;34:*.xpm=00;34:*.tif=00;34:*.pcx=00;34:*.cfg=01;34:*.conf=01;34:*config=01;34:*.mod=00;35:*.mtm=00;35:*.s3m=00;35:*.xm=00;35:*.ptm=00;35:*.med=00;35:*.emd=00;35:*.it=00;35:*.nst=00;35:*.stm=00;35:*.dmf=00;35:*.dsm=00;35:*.mdl=00;35:*.669=00;35:*.far=00;35:*.ult=00;35:*.amf=00;35:*.ams=00;35:*.mp3=00;35:*.ogg=00;35:*.wav=00;35:*.flac=00;35:*.tar=00;36:*.tgz=00;36:*.arj=00;36:*.a0*=00;36:*.taz=00;36:*.lzh=00;36:*.lha=00;36:*.rar=00;36:*.zoo=00;36:*.arc=00;36:*.zip=00;36:*.z=00;36:*.Z=00;36:*.gz=00;36:*.bz2=00;36:*.7z=00;36:*.ace=00;36:*.txt=01;37:*.doc=01;37:*.nfo=01;37:*.faq=01;37:*.wri=01;37:*.pdf=01;37:'; export LS_COLORS jrod...@calufrax:~/rc/bash >dircolors ~/rc/dir_colors |grep hl # no hl present jrod...@calufrax:~/rc/bash >dircolors ~/rc/dir_colors |sed s/hl=[^:]*:/hl=:/ LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=01;35:ln=01;36:or=01;31:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:ex=01;32:*.dat=00;31:*.ovl=00;31:*.sys=00;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.dll=00;33:*.c=01;33:*.cpp=01;33:*.pas=01;33:*.bas=01;33:*.h=01;33:*.jpg=00;34:*.jpeg=00;34:*.png=00;34:*.gif=00;34:*.bmp=00;34:*.xbm=00;34:*.xpm=00;34:*.tif=00;34:*.pcx=00;34:*.cfg=01;34:*.conf=01;34:*config=01;34:*.mod=00;35:*.mtm=00;35:*.s3m=00;35:*.xm=00;35:*.ptm=00;35:*.med=00;35:*.emd=00;35:*.it=00;35:*.nst=00;35:*.stm=00;35:*.dmf=00;35:*.dsm=00;35:*.mdl=00;35:*.669=00;35:*.far=00;35:*.ult=00;35:*.amf=00;35:*.ams=00;35:*.mp3=00;35:*.ogg=00;35:*.wav=00;35:*.flac=00;35:*.tar=00;36:*.tgz=00;36:*.arj=00;36:*.a0*=00;36:*.taz=00;36:*.lzh=00;36:*.lha=00;36:*.rar=00;36:*.zoo=00;36:*.arc=00;36:*.zip=00;36:*.z=00;36:*.Z=00;36:*.gz=00;36:*.bz2=00;36:*.7z=00;36:*.ace=00;36:*.txt=01;37:*.doc=01;37:*.nfo=01;37:*.faq=01;37:*.wri=01;37:*.pdf=01;37:'; export LS_COLORS jrod...@calufrax:~/rc/bash >dircolors ~/rc/dir_colors |sed s/hl=[^:]*:/hl=:/ |grep hl But the colors come anyway: jrod...@calufrax:~/rc/bash >ls -l functions -rw-r--r-- 1 jrodman jrodman 2744 2006-12-03 07:10 functions jrod...@calufrax:~/rc/bash >ls --color=yes functions |xxd # plain color 0000000: 1b5b 306d 1b5b 3030 6d66 756e 6374 696f .[0m.[00mfunctio 0000010: 6e73 1b5b 306d 0a1b 5b6d ns.[0m..[m jrod...@calufrax:~/rc/bash >ln functions functions-link jrod...@calufrax:~/rc/bash >ls --color=yes functions |xxd # blue 0000000: 1b5b 306d 1b5b 3434 3b33 376d 6675 6e63 .[0m.[44;37mfunc 0000010: 7469 6f6e 731b 5b30 6d0a 1b5b 6d tions.[0m..[m I'm unclear whether dir_colors will sometimes spit out an hl value. Having a colorization occur that isn't even in LS_COLORS is unfortunate. -josh _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
