From unknown Fri Jun 20 07:17:21 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#18287 <18287@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#18287 <18287@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: ls: background colour does not stop Reply-To: bug#18287 <18287@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:17:21 +0000 retitle 18287 ls: background colour does not stop reassign 18287 coreutils submitter 18287 Kirin van der Veer severity 18287 normal thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Aug 17 22:23:26 2014 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Aug 2014 02:23:26 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45768 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XJCbU-00069R-Kx for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 22:23:26 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58049) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XJCQe-0005pw-Eg for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 22:12:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJCQT-0005iR-2N for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 22:12:07 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:41184) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJCQS-0005iN-V1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 22:12:00 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59757) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJCQN-00061f-KA for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 22:12:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJCQI-0005gz-H7 for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 22:11:55 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f181.google.com ([209.85.192.181]:42060) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJCQI-0005go-60 for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 22:11:50 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f181.google.com with SMTP id g10so6459808pdj.40 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 19:11:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=xRDxqVI4Kg6R88k43dbxnqPm9jub48MiUM7g+DAxey8=; b=Iytmh5Z60Fi5ggtEAJvjkObE/QUXE/3BF+uMimP25tYwSwOZiTNSInqzl7q3I2l6Dv hbt1S7DBbUMb/SnD3j8OazdQHKJoP1vFg4ZPSgiLK0B65uSAdAMCN74G+CnHJ9XAnPVH AosH8//UXrSY1BLgcQarrdVYzgokfDH6gmTb6ntZyky74bGHemj33qRg7Znn66f5QmnJ lxnszYwZrIpk6P5wgJJ9SEaygbEbP60vRnQtqWxZWqupC8FTSvHvbaxvztejcqJKUWfF M5mFq9QQAy2iM423s8W6BhrTzYBvKJ1f+9KF2GjcI5BoqNz7c6tyqcYek5ELJGHy5+bi 7F2g== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkwSQPQ0SE/0XY7WhO3jXwa+apaHDDfKUB58HHxEqtphs77FehuhlKhrKYB37V1yixghvfi MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.70.88.237 with SMTP id bj13mr37310992pdb.57.1408327908291; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 19:11:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.126.5 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 19:11:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:11:48 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Minor bug in ls - background colour does not stop From: Kirin van der Veer To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=001a11c23b52b3f1950500dde405 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 22:23:22 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) --001a11c23b52b3f1950500dde405 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c23b52b3f1910500dde403 --001a11c23b52b3f1910500dde403 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 As per the attached screenshot both Xterm and Gnome terminal display the green background colour until the carriage return. I have included steps below to reproduce the problem. I will note that if you issue the "clear" command after changing the column width of your xterm session the issue does not seem to appear. This problem appears with ls from coreutils v8.21 (ubuntu) and 8.12.197-032bb (debian). I was using GNOME Terminal v3.6.2 and XTerm v297 on Ubuntu 14.04 to test. *Steps to reproduce:* $ touch file-with-a-name-long-enough-to-wrap-the-screen $ mkdir .hidden-folder .other-hidden-folder $ chmod 777 .hidden-folder .other-hidden-folder $ ls -la