Re: [TUHS] TECO was: Re: basic tools / Universal Unix

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 [1]> 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   Links: ------ [1] mailto:dave@horsfall.org