I THINK that I don't like ls colours, but I have to admit that since I
started trying to pay attention more, I find colour coding has some
value, for some meaning of some and no value defined.
Actually no, I still hate colour LS. I like ls -F because the implied
extra information can be semantically extracted with a grep, although
why find . -type d -maxdepth 1 isn't being used is beyond me.
de gustibus non disputandum, but on a unibus, there are also no
disputes because the bus master arbitrates
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Steve Johnson <scj(a)yaccman.com> wrote:
Reminds me of a comment a seasoned co-worker came out
with when looking over
a new employee's program, filled with
variableNamesThatRanOnAndOnForHalfALineOrMaybeLonger. "I used to write boot
loaders that were shorter than your variable names!"
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From:
"Andy Kosela" <akosela(a)andykosela.com>
To:
"Dave Horsfall" <dave(a)horsfall.org>
Cc:
"The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Sent:
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:58:59 +0100
Subject:
Re: [TUHS] TECO was: Re: basic tools / Universal Unix
On Thursday, November 16, 2017, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:
Speaking of which, am I the only one annoyed by
Penguin/OS' silly
coloured "ls" output? I can never remember how to turn off that frippery,
as the contrast is particularly hard on my eyes; the minimalist "F" flag
works just fine.
Thanks, all; I'll just knock up a simple script that blows away the entire
environment and unaliases everything in sight. I'll probably call it
"orca"
because I have a warped sense of humour...
Unix taught me to be minimalist; you had to be when writing a bootstrap to
fit into 512 bytes...
If you happen to be on Red Hat derived Linux, the easiest way to turn off
all this crap is to rename /etc/profile to something like /etc/profile.dist
and then populate your own startup scripts.
For a minimalist prompt I just use:
export PS1='\h \$ '
--Andy