Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:29:13 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: bin/18900: patch to add colorizing feature to /bin/ls Message-ID: <20000530192913.A86086@orange> In-Reply-To: <200005302146.WAA01750@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:46:39PM %2B0100 References: <DougB@gorean.org> <200005302146.WAA01750@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:46:39PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > The unix way would be to have a ``colourise'' program - I could even > live with ``colorize'' !!! Making things look colourful is not the > job of ls(1). How does ``colo[u]?i[sz]e'' tell the difference between ~/regfile and ~/fifo without doing a stat() on them? Isn't stat() the job of ls(1)? How would you code the existing -F option using a filter? -- Signature withheld by request of author. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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