Re: ls: unrecognized prefix: hl

2010-05-22 Thread Rodolfo Perez
On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 14:57 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > That doesn't make sense. Both dircolors and ls are from coreutils. If > you use the same version of coreutils to generate /etc/dircolors, then > ls should understand it. > > On a recent LFS system, /etc/dircolors does not have an hl prefi

Re: ls: unrecognized prefix: hl

2010-05-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rodolfo Perez wrote: > I don't know about the newer coreutils. But the commend: > dircolors -p > /etc/dircolors > on blfs Version svn-20100501 seems to have caused my problem. That doesn't make sense. Both dircolors and ls are from coreutils. If you use the same version of coreutils to generat

Re: ls: unrecognized prefix: hl

2010-05-22 Thread Rodolfo Perez
> On 21.05.2010 09:40, Rodolfo Perez wrote: > >> root [ /etc ]# ls > >> ls: unrecognized prefix: hl > >> ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable Thank you blfs-people for your advises, altough i resolved my problem differently. I "googled" and found out, that "older" coreutils had

Re: ls: unrecognized prefix: hl

2010-05-22 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 10:35 +0200, Nicolas Richard wrote: > Also on bash, the builtin "type" seems to do the job of 'alias' and > 'which' at the same time. Is there any drawback to using that one ? Certainly not for an interactive shell - since it's a bash builtin, it'll tell you *exactly* what ba

Re: ls: unrecognized prefix: hl

2010-05-22 Thread Nicolas Richard
Le 21/05/10 12:05, Lars Bamberger a écrit : > Find out what command is actually executed when you type 'ls'. Do a > 'which ls' or 'alias ls' if which is not installed. I think 'which' will not tell you if there is an alias (maybe it depends on version used), so 'alias' might be a better first choi