Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:54:27 -0600 | From | Mitchell Blank Jr <> | Subject | Re: Linux Makefile uses 'ls', causes problems with color-ls (PATCH) |
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Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > Unless you specifically alias ls as 'ls --color=no' it will generate > > color. > > 'ls --color=tty' will produce colour only with stdout points to a > [pseudo]tty.
It's '--color=auto' or "color tty" in /etc/DIR_COLORS Richard - what distribution are you using that ISN'T like this? If you have ls using colors in the non-tty case a lot of shell scripts break. Non-tty ls (like "/bin/ls|cat") has a very well defined output format since the 70s, and lots of things count on that format.
I have Redhat and Debian handy and they both seem to do the right thing.
-Mitch
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