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Unknown colorls variable `rs'

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From: Rihan Haque <rihanphys <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Unknown colorls variable `rs'
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:16:58 +0530

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Hi,

I am using a computing cluster to run my jobs which uses Unix system.
When I submit jobs (using *.csh script) I get following error:
Unknown colorls variable `rs'
in the out put log file.

Could you please suggest a remedy?


Thanks
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 Md. Rihan Haque,*
JRF, VECC, Kolkata,
          INDIA

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Rihan Haque <rihanphys <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 12505 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12505: Unknown colorls variable `rs'
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:42:11 +0100

tag 12505 + notabug
close 12505

On 09/24/2012 06:46 PM, Rihan Haque wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using a computing cluster to run my jobs which uses Unix system.
> When I submit jobs (using *.csh script) I get following error:
> Unknown colorls variable `rs'
> in the out put log file.
>
> Could you please suggest a remedy?

I think you may be setting LSCOLORS up with
coreutils specific colors syntax.

You want to restrict such syntax to the
LS_COLORS variable (note the _).

For a script that abstracts away from all
these differences on various platforms, see:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/l

cheers,
Pádraig.

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Rihan Haque <rihanphys <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 12505-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12505: Unknown colorls variable `rs'
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:51:09 -0600

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tag 12505 notabug
thanks

On 09/24/2012 11:46 AM, Rihan Haque wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using a computing cluster to run my jobs which uses Unix system.
> When I submit jobs (using *.csh script) I get following error:
> Unknown colorls variable `rs'
> in the out put log file.

That message is coming from tcsh, not coreutils.

> 
> Could you please suggest a remedy?

Don't use .csh scripts?
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

Beyond that, all I can suggest is to either:
1) change whatever input file you feed to dircolors (several distros let
you customize things in ~/.dircolors), until you omit whatever part of
that file is making dircolors generate the 'rs' designation that tcsh
doesn't like
2) hand-edit $LS_COLORS in your environment to manually omit that portion
3) file a bug report against your distro's packaging of tcsh to get them
to shut up tcsh's stupid message.  It's a bit of a shame that tcsh's
built-in 'ls' understands only a subset of LS_COLORS that coreutils' ls
understands, yet verbally complains about what it doesn't recognize.

At any rate, since this is not a bug in coreutils, I'm closing the
associated bug report, although you should feel free to continue on this
thread if you have more questions or comments.

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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