[uug] C-shell script MATLAB

[Daniel Smith]

I recently installed the student version of MATLAB on my laptop.  I had  
ls aliased to ls --color, in order to get color highlighting.  In the  
matlab command window you get garbage for the colors. example:

EDU>> ls

ans =

X11    etc      
install_matlab      license.txt  sys
bin    extern  install_matlab.out   
simulink     toolbox
demos  help    java               
  stateflow    update


by removing the alias I am able to get rid of the garbage.  I wrote a  
small script that I put in my .cshrc file to only set the alias if  
Matlab is not running.

set matlab = (`ps xc | grep MATLAB`)

if($matlab[5] != MATLAB) then
    alias ls 'ls --color'
    setenv LS_COLORS  
'no=00:fi=00:di=01;33:ln=01;36:pi=40;34:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01 
:or=40;31;01:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*. 
lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.deb=0 
1;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.ppm=0 
1;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mpg=0 
1;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:'
endif

The problem with this solution is any time that Matlab is running and I  
open a new terminal I no longer get the colors.

Is there a smarter way to do this?  A way to tell what application the  
shell is running in etc.?

Daniel Smith



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