Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The .dir_colors input file for dircolors(1) has a list of terminal > types that are colorizable. It would be helpful to also have an > explicit list in that config file of terminal types that should not be > colorized. Then if the value of $TERM is unknown dircolors can print > a warning. > > If you don't want to issue a warning in the general case then at least > do so when stdout is a tty. In this day and age all terminals are > colour-capable and ls(1) assumes this. Dircolors produces empty > output on a tty that's not recognized. But an empty LS_COLORS > environment variable does not tell ls to avoid colorization, just to > use the default colour scheme.
Hi Ed, What do you think about doing the test yourself? $ dircolors -p|grep "^TERM $TERM\$" TERM xterm _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
