Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2000/05/01/08:31:46
Hello.
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> First, redirection is not necessarily relevant to `dircolors', because
> it runs under a different environment than `ls'.
[snip]
> The reason `dircolors' ignores TERM is that the method used for
> colorization doesn't depend on TERM.
Thanks for the explanation. I'll leave the patch for the ignoration of
TERM there.
> > I found that 'ls c:' does not work in bash (in 3.16 and 4.0 ports).
> > Even 'ls c\:' fails. Is this expected behaviour? 'ls c:' works OK
> > from command.com.
>
> I cannot reproduce this problem on my machine; "ls c:" works for me
> both from COMMAND.COM and from Bash. What version of Bash are you
> using? Is `ls' an alias maybe?
I'm thoroughly confused now. I tested (on different "machines") with:
Windows '95 OSR 2.1 + bash 1.14.7
Windows NT 4 + bash 2.03
with:
alias ls='ls -F --color=tty'
and it worked. I'll retest '95 + 2.03 later.
Bye,
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Richard Dawe
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