Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 07:18:16 -0400 (EDT) From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: colorls utility Message-ID: <199606121118.HAA15326@elmer.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <199606111438.OAA10101@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Jun 11, 96 08:38:46 am
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Sean Kelly:
>>>>>> "Randy" == Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net> writes:
> Randy> Greetings, I've just installed colorls from 2.1 release. I
> Randy> added "alias ls colorls -G" to my .cshrc. It works fine
> Randy> until I do a "ls - <switch> |more. If I use more I get the
> Randy> ANSI escape sequence and not the color. Is there a way
> Randy> around this?
>
>I remember someone saying that they modified colorls to check to see
>if its output is a tty, and only if it is a tty will it output the
>color sequences. I don't know if this fix was made, though.
I don't know if the change was was made in the distribution either, but if
you pull the source, this is the patch. In bin/ls/ls.c, change:
case 'G':
f_color = 1;
break;
to:
case 'G':
if ( isatty(1) )
f_color = 1;
break;
Randall Hopper
rhh@ct.picker.com
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