From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue May 30 16:37: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F388D37B742 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 16:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@FreeBSD.org) Received: from orange (HSE-MTL-ppp12866.qc.sympatico.ca [209.226.183.176]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA03949; Tue, 30 May 2000 19:33:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by orange (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA86450; Tue, 30 May 2000 19:29:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:29:13 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Brian Somers Cc: Doug Barton , 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> References: <200005302146.WAA01750@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <200005302146.WAA01750@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:46:39PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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