Re: text colors in terminals (ls command)

From	Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: text colors in terminals (ls command)
Date	2023-03-05 22:23 +0000
Organization	Some absurd concept
Message-ID	<eli$2303051723@qaz.wtf> (permalink)
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In comp.os.linux.misc, Lew Pitcher  <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> wrote:
> For ls(1), you signal whether to use (or not) a colour palette by setting
> the --color option. Often, a distribution will set (through the
> /etc/profile script or one of the scripts in /etc/profile.d) an alias for 
> ls(1) that specifies --color=always. You can disable colourization by
> altering or unsetting this alias, or specifying ls with the --color=none
> option.

As someone who logs into a lot of machines / VMs for figuring out what
went wrong before things get restarted, I loathe distros providing
"helpful" aliases by default. I want the tools to just be the tools.

Elijah
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vim's no vimrc defaults fall in the same annoying category

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text colors in terminals (ls command) Bazza <suzywng@outlook.com> - 2023-03-04 17:25 +0800
  Re: text colors in terminals (ls command) Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2023-03-04 10:41 +0100
    Re: text colors in terminals (ls command) "Nuno Silva" <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-05 10:04 +0000
      Re: text colors in terminals (ls command) Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2023-03-05 12:01 +0100
        Re: text colors in terminals (ls command) Anthk <anthk@disroot.org> - 2023-03-24 15:39 +0000
  Re: text colors in terminals (ls command) Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-03-04 10:27 -0700
  Re: text colors in terminals (ls command) Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2023-03-05 16:14 +0000
    Re: text colors in terminals (ls command) Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2023-03-05 22:23 +0000
  Re: text colors in terminals (ls command) Anthk <anthk@disroot.org> - 2023-03-24 15:39 +0000

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