adding the "auto" was in red hat docs upto now. i just actually
read the 6.0 docs and they have it as just "--color". i have
always just done it that way. according to the man page:
"By default, color is not used to distinguish types of
files. That is equivalent to using --color=none. Using
the --color option without the optional WHEN argument is
equivalent to using --color=always. With --color=auto,
color codes are output only if standard output is con-
nected to a terminal (tty)."
cool?
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, michael jones wrote:
> > add the line
> > alias ls='ls --color=auto'
> >
> Ok...I have virtually the same thing in my .bashrc file,
> but the difference between what I have and what you list
> above is that I don't have the "=auto" bit appended. What's
> that do, JOOC? If it does something to allow me to really
> see stuff correctly (sometimes I get a bunch of high-ascii
> crap instead of colors...) I might add it. But as it is,
> just "alias ls='ls --color'" works just fine for me.... :-)
> TIA..
> John
>
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