12 Mar
2020
12 Mar
'20
11:35 a.m.
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Dave Horsfall wrote:
Which is why I suggested there be a means to turn it
off; I'm becoming a fan
of environment variables to modify the standard behaviour of tools (but I
loathe the Penguin/OS default to use colours).
When I first used Linux, that wasn't the default. Personally, I don't
think it should be (actually I think there simply shouldn't be a color
mode at all to ls).
More than likely; as I approach age 68 I notice that
I'm losing some
cognitive facility... I might start using "," and see if I like it, but I
see that the Mac doesn't have it (my Penguin is off the air at the moment),
and having it as an environment variable would be nice.
GNU ls does not appear to have a -, switch.
IBM, interestingly, introduced an environment variable in PC DOS 6.3 that
did the opposite thing. If the NO_SEP variable existed, it suppressed
commas in file sizes.
-uso.