-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 1/18/2006 10:40 PM: > > You must be using a patched coreutils because none of that alias junk is > in the official tarballs. Check the patches that your distribution > adds.
However, some of that distro patch may be worth adding into the official distribution. For example, pristine dircolors currently ignores the COLOR and OPTIONS keywords for compatibility. But at least the Mandrake distribution alters the built-in database compiled into dircolors, as well as providing /etc/DIR_COLORS, with the lines: COLOR tty OPTIONS -b -T 0 They are ignored in the official distro, but Mandrake is obviously patched to parse them and turn them into the aliases you saw. This ability to use dircolors output alone to turn on ls --color=auto seems useful (provided, of course, that there is also an option to not output aliases, especially since not all bourne shells recognize alias as a keyword). It would be interesting to see what the state of your distro's patch currently is. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDz5A084KuGfSFAYARAkbNAJwMjNokFOx0wUMe0jrv8IJCFI2g4wCgugxC aGqs+5CsaXP9B5GX+d40oTc= =lSBY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
