Subject: Re: colorls
To: Thilo Manske <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
From: Nate Johnston <njohnston@broadwing.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/25/2000 10:06:38
> (Are we alone on this list?)
No. :)
> It seems to loose it's fuctionality when piped though more or less.
> Is this the way it just is, because if it is, colorls is pretty
> useless, as most directories are more than a screenfull long. Plus, I
> wish to suggest it as a
Deleting the color codes is better than the alternative, which is what
linuxls does (I'm using the names in the NetBSD ports tree, BTW). Here's
a sample:
njohnston@synapse:/usr/pkgsrc/misc/linuxls linuxls --color
[32mCVS[0m
[0mMakefile[0m
[32mfiles[0m
[32mpatches[0m
[32mpkg[0m
[32mwork[0m
You can see how the ANSI color codes are displayed literally in more.
grep and all the other text processing utilities are the same.
--N.