On Tuesday 2008-12-30 21:47, Jim Meyering wrote: > >Thanks for the follow-up. >I've just tried to reproduce the problem using the latest >version of ls, invoked from a linux vt, then xterm, aterm and rxvt >windows. Each time, I did this in an empty directory: > > seq 100|xargs touch; touch z.foo > env LS_COLORS='*.foo=0;31;42' ls -l --color > >All I see on the last line is a red "z.foo" on a green background, >and then the usual prompt.
You have to use a long filename (not just z.foo) that wraps in the terminal. See the video at http://jengelh.medozas.de/files/coreutils7ls.ogv for details. Version used was v7.0-114-g921feef. Standard ./configure and (slightly abridged) make, as shown. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
