17 Nov
2017
17 Nov
'17
5:07 a.m.
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
On 2017-11-17 10:38, George Michaelson wrote:
Overall I guess it's more of a matter of, well, do you want Unix or do you
want GNU? On a desktop, I tend to find the GNU extensions useful. On a
server, I think I want lean and mean, minimalist, and more of a pure Unix
environment.
-uso.
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.
Colorized ls can show you other things. For example:
* setuid/setgid files
* broken symlinks
ls -F can't do these.
Myself, I like ls itself to be colourless, but I do have an alias "cls"
and use it often.