On Thursday 15 July 2010 09:03:41 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 15 July 2010 04:25:25 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 July 2010 20:35:43 Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > How can I prevent bash of blinking when running "ls -l" on a > > > directory with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is > > > really unbearable if a directory contains lots of broken links. I > > > didn't manage to google my way around this problem. Maybe some > > > other package has to be reconfigured... > > > > $ clear > > Clear clears the screen and resets the prompt to top left. It does > nothing to change the configured color scheme in DIR_COLORS
No, and it seems I misread the question. The operative word was "prevent", whereas what I offered was a recovery. Must pay more attention. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.