On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Pete Peterson wrote:
> I haven't loaded 6.2 yet, but I detest the color "ls" that has been around
> for a while. It makes things much harder to read on just about any kind
> of background.
That's a matter of taste; most people seem to like it.
> The light blue is nearly unreadable on a white background
> and the dark blue is nearly unreadable on a black background.
That's why we didn't configure it to use light blue on white or dark blue
on black for anything.
> It also breaks scripts, putting rubbish escape sequences into the output.
This isn't true, we're using ls --color=auto, not ls --color=yes.
--color=auto colorizes only interactive output, nothing that's piped or
part of a "for i in `ls`" type construct.
> If you find out how to make this bad undesirable behavior go away, please
> send me the solution.
rm -f /etc/profile.d/colorls*
LLaP
bero
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