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From: itz@very.loosely.org (Ian Zimmerman)
Subject: [TUHS] TECO was: Re: basic tools / Universal Unix
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:56:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171117035615.55nojmey5wz4fz63@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKr6gn3Ub7ve0G0dSAviXAe5q6CDUN-mY7ghxhR2Ztyhsh7KCQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2017-11-17 10:38, George Michaelson wrote:

> Actually no, I still hate colour LS. I like ls -F because the implied
> extra information can be semantically extracted with a grep, although
> why find . -type d -maxdepth 1 isn't being used is beyond me.

Colorized ls can show you other things.  For example:

* setuid/setgid files
* broken symlinks

ls -F can't do these.

Myself, I like ls itself to be colourless, but I do have an alias "cls"
and use it often.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-17  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-30 14:16 [TUHS] " Noel Chiappa
2017-10-30 14:40 ` Clem Cole
2017-10-30 15:23 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-10-30 20:56 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-31 10:50   ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-01  3:23     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-01 13:25       ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-11-16  1:17         ` Dario Niedermann
2017-11-15  1:25       ` Nemo
2017-11-15  2:10         ` Will Senn
2017-11-15  2:16           ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-15  2:37             ` Warner Losh
2017-11-15  3:07               ` Will Senn
2017-11-15 16:13                 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-15 16:23                   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-15 16:48                     ` Clem Cole
2017-11-15 18:13                       ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-15 19:01                         ` Clem Cole
2017-11-15 19:52                           ` [TUHS] TECO was: " Arthur Krewat
2017-11-15 20:19                             ` Clem Cole
2017-11-15 20:25                               ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-15 22:18                                 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-15 22:42                                   ` [TUHS] :nohlsearch in vim Chris Torek
2017-11-16  2:44                                     ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-16  4:34                                   ` [TUHS] TECO was: Re: basic tools / Universal Unix Dave Horsfall
2017-11-16  4:36                                     ` Jim Capp
2017-11-16  8:42                                     ` Pete Turnbull
2017-11-18 14:39                                       ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-16  9:19                                     ` arnold
2017-11-16 21:59                                     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-16 22:58                                       ` Andy Kosela
2017-11-17  2:17                                         ` Steve Johnson
2017-11-17  2:38                                           ` George Michaelson
2017-11-17  3:56                                             ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2017-11-17  4:07                                               ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-17  8:44                                             ` Michael Kjörling
2017-11-17  3:50                                         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-17  6:51                                           ` Andy Kosela
2017-11-17  1:18                                     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-11-16  0:29                                 ` Grant Taylor
2017-11-16  0:35                                   ` Grant Taylor
2017-11-16  0:52                                     ` Warner Losh
2017-11-16  9:29                             ` [TUHS] TECO was: " Mutiny 
2017-11-16 14:55                               ` Clem Cole
2017-11-16 21:26                                 ` Random832
2017-11-17  9:08                                   ` Mutiny 
2017-11-16 20:35                               ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-16 21:00                                 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-17  6:28                               ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-15  9:58               ` [TUHS] " Andy Kosela
2017-11-15 11:42           ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-01 14:05     ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-01 16:42       ` arnold
2017-11-01 17:17         ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-01 18:03           ` Dan Cross
2017-11-01 18:06           ` arnold
2017-11-01 20:16             ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-01 20:37               ` arnold
2017-11-01 21:04                 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-02  0:05                 ` Chet Ramey
2017-11-02  0:10             ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-10-31 16:43   ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 17:48   ` Paul Winalski
2017-10-30 21:50 ` Charles Anthony
2017-11-16 23:15 [TUHS] TECO was: " Doug McIlroy

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