-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Philip Ganchev on 8/11/2006 12:50 AM: > The program "ls" cannot be configured to use a special color when > listing backup files that start with a hash character (#). A > commonly encountered example of such files is backup files produced by > Emacs: their names match the glob pattern #*#.
Actually dircolors and ls do not use glob patterns, but literal suffixes (although I would like to see that changed, but have not had time to propose a patch; and I don't know what performance hit using glob and/or fnmatch will have compared to the current strncmp). Which means only '.' or '*' can start lines for suffix matching in the dircolors input. And # is the dircolors comment, so you have to resort to \043 or some other escape sequence notation so that dircolors doesn't eat it as a comment. With that in mind, you can feed this line to dircolors: *\043 01;35 to get an LS_COLORS value that will turn emacs backup files magenta in an ls listing. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE3ITc84KuGfSFAYARAnOxAJ92aRBrlNAddIQuX7uQItjoX2593ACfQoFO 0F5kHODDTbQCxOjdZvNr/0U= =pNCe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
