On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:41:52PM +1200, Keith McGavin wrote: > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Timothy Musson wrote: > > alias ls='ls --color=auto'
> what could 'ls --color=auto' be useful for other than being neater > for not having escape codes? The =auto output in my kdedit and > gedit editors is plain black print. > 'ls --color' defaults as 'ls --color=always' so in xterm generally > the two options will work the same. Hi Keith, I don't know if there are any other uses :) I mentioned it only because it's in a ~/.bashrc, where it could cause occasional weirdness without auto. Say you want to send the output of ls straight to your printer... or maybe you'll come across a shell script that needs to pipe ls through grep (for example) and mucks up due to the escape codes. With auto, you're just avoiding potential hassle. > > Usually, ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.profile) sources ~/.bashrc > Slackware's default install uses /etc/profile so I was putting > things in that perspective. I admit, I only know my way around Debian (and I'm no guru there, either. Sooo... :) Bedtime. Tim -- Timothy Musson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~trmusson/ A day for firm decisions!!!! Or is it?
