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Package: coreutils
Version: 8.23-4
Severity: minor
Hi.
ls(1) says:
>--color[=WHEN]
> colorize the output; WHEN can be 'never', 'auto', or 'always' (the
> default); more info below
However, the default seems to be never (which is even stated a little
bit further below in the manpage).
Cheers,
Chris
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On 26/03/15 03:14, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 02:49 +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> ls --color is the same as ls --color=always
>> ls is the same as ls --color=none
> Ah... it's so simple :D
>
> May I suggest e.g.:
>> colorize the output; WHEN can be 'never', 'auto', or 'always' (the default,
>> if WHEN is omitted); more info below
> or
>> colorize the output; WHEN (which defaults to 'always' if omitted) can be
>> 'never', 'auto', or 'always'; more info below
> or
>> colorize the output; WHEN can be 'never', 'auto', or 'always' (the default,
>> if omitted); more info below
>
> (in order of precedence how I'd prefer them).
>
> Doesn't seem to add that much text and makes it IMHO more clear :)
Fixed in your name upstream with:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=41d0fc1
cheers,
Pádraig.
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