GNU bug report logs - #15992
'ls' ignores term capabilities when generating color.

Previous Next

Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:32:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>
To: 15992 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: coreutils <at> tlinx.org
Subject: bug#15992: 'ls' ignores term capabilities when generating color.
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 16:35:32 -0500

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On Thursday 28 November 2013 15:31:06 Linda Walsh wrote:
> While I do have an alias that says:
> alias ls='ls -CF --show-control-chars --color=always'

there's your problem.  don't use --color=always.
-mike

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, inline)]
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 94 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.