Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Don't know if this matters here, but a while ago I learnd that if I > really need to parse output of ls -l, then I should set LANG=C and > LC_ALL=C. I didn't see any breakage when LS_COLORS is set, but maybe > you want to reset that, too? Yeah, I usually try to be defensive and I know LANG/LC_ALL matters if you want to parse "ls -l" for dates, but it should not matter for perm bits. If LS_COLORS is honoured when it is outputting to non-terminal (as in var=`ls`), it's severely broken, so... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html