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To: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>
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Subject: Re: bin/18900: patch to add colorizing feature to /bin/ls 
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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?

cat >/bin/myls <<eof
#! /bin/sh
exec ls -F "$@" | colourise
eof

or whatever... of course it's easier to say ``alias ls="gnuls -G"''...

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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
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