Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:51:54 -0800 From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: rene@tp98.catv.szabinet.hu Cc: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@speakeasy.org>, Matthew Jonkman <jonkman@jonkmangarage.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell Color Coding Message-ID: <38D994DA.D49429A4@gorean.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003222352390.82633-100000@tp98.catv.szabinet.hu>
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Rene Scott wrote:
> Maybe a better approach to define a function like
>
> function ls
> {
> gnuls --color=auto $@
> }
>
> And with 'alias ls='gnuls --color=always' the following shell code on
> the command line should fail:
>
> for i in `ls`; do
> ...
> done
A) Why should it fail? B) It doesn't. :) C) A better approach for your
command line script is:
for i in *; do
Good luck,
Doug
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