> > > >edit .bashrc in your home directory and add
> > > >
> > > >alias ls='ls --color=yes'
> > >
> > > Better to use "--color=tty".
> >
> > "--color" works equally good.
>
> No, it doesn't always.
>
> For instance:
>
> % /bin/ls -a --color > foo
> % cat -v foo
> ^[[01;34m.^[[0m
> ^[[01;34m..^[[0m
> ^[[0mfoo^[[0m
>
> With --color, any programs which take the ouput of ls through, say, a
> pipe will be confused by the escape codes. The --color=tty option will
> only output escape sequences (and colors) to the screen.
Hmmmm. Well, I had alias dir="ls -F --color=yes" in my /etc/bashrc and for
example piping things to less printed the color codes but not to more. So,
I just tried it out with --color and with --color=tty and got the same
results. Probably more a less issue then a ls thing, but it is identical
behavior regardless.
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