VGER "X-Loop" header! ;-)
John
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Subject: Re: Colours ....
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:28:34 -0400
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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?
>
Ok...so for all practical purposes there's no difference
between the way I have it (alias ls='ls --color') and the
way you have it (alias ls='ls --color=auto') :-) At least
not as far as I'm concerned, there's no difference... :-)
John
