On 06/29/2015 12:36 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
The colours are defined in the LS_COLORS environment variable. You can use `dircolors -p` to see what means what. The colours are shown as ANSI escape sequences. You can "see" them by printing them like this: $ echo -e '\e[00;36mfoo\e[0m' where \e[...m wraps the escape sequence.
Yes, and I know that there is a list somewhere of the human readable names, or at least I know that I found one years ago. There's no reason that those names can't be used, either instead of, or along with the escape sequences. And, I object to the maintainers assuming that everybody wants color instead of making it an option. (That is, putting the alias in .bashrc, possibly commented by default instead of hiding it in /etc/bashrc where most users would be afraid to make changes, and it gets overwritten with every update.) I understand why developers/maintainers tend to set things up with their own personal preferences, but I do wish that more of them would at least try to resist the temptation. I've never experimented with other shells; do they do the same type of thing, or is this mostly bash-specific.
(I've edited the subject line here because this fork of the thread isn't about awk or sort any more, but I don't want to change the threading.)
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