From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akosela@andykosela.com (Andy Kosela) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:58:59 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] TECO was: Re: basic tools / Universal Unix In-Reply-To: References: <20171030141645.6F81C18C0E7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20171115021648.GL6265@mcvoy.com> <6b4ef803-489b-00f5-4a87-14ab907090f8@gmail.com> <108d318d-3879-e056-8b63-f333f85e5516@kilonet.net> <8b1ce7d5-d626-b523-d134-60efd61a0386@kilonet.net> <1f60403b-fc74-35e7-18b9-a33d0d6ef2fb@kilonet.net> <20171115221853.E0E0C1F978@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Message-ID: 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: