Subject: bug#12020: ls should show when extended system attributes are set

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:16:39 +0200

Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Sunday, July 22, 2012 14:40:46 Jim Meyering wrote:
>> When already using --color, we do get each test result for free
>
> Not really.  The check for file capabilities is optional even with --color.
> The 'ca' indicator in $LS_COLORS needs to be set to a color to enable this.

Hi Kamil,

While true that you can disable it,
with the default color settings, that indicator is set,

   $ dircolors --pr |grep CAP
   CAPABILITY 30;41 # file with capability

so with --color, the check is performed unless you arrange
to turn it off.