From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ggm@algebras.org (George Michaelson) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 10:38:13 +0800 Subject: [TUHS] TECO was: Re: basic tools / Universal Unix In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I THINK that I don't like ls colours, but I have to admit that since I started trying to pay attention more, I find colour coding has some value, for some meaning of some and no value defined. 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. de gustibus non disputandum, but on a unibus, there are also no disputes because the bus master arbitrates On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Steve Johnson wrote: > Reminds me of a comment a seasoned co-worker came out with when looking over > a new employee's program, filled with > variableNamesThatRanOnAndOnForHalfALineOrMaybeLonger. "I used to write boot > loaders that were shorter than your variable names!" > > Steve > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > "Andy Kosela" > > To: > "Dave Horsfall" > Cc: > "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" > Sent: > Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:58:59 +0100 > Subject: > Re: [TUHS] TECO was: Re: basic tools / Universal Unix > > > > > On Thursday, November 16, 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote: >> >> On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote: >> >>> Speaking of which, am I the only one annoyed by Penguin/OS' silly >>> coloured "ls" output? I can never remember how to turn off that frippery, >>> as the contrast is particularly hard on my eyes; the minimalist "F" flag >>> works just fine. >> >> >> Thanks, all; I'll just knock up a simple script that blows away the entire >> environment and unaliases everything in sight. I'll probably call it "orca" >> because I have a warped sense of humour... >> >> Unix taught me to be minimalist; you had to be when writing a bootstrap to >> fit into 512 bytes... >> > > If you happen to be on Red Hat derived Linux, the easiest way to turn off > all this crap is to rename /etc/profile to something like /etc/profile.dist > and then populate your own startup scripts. > > For a minimalist prompt I just use: > > export PS1='\h \$ ' > > --Andy > >