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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended?
Date: 28 Mar 1996 12:34:21 GMT
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, The University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: mike@calypso.bns.com.au's message of 26 Mar 1996 23:13:40 +1030
Hello guys, I'm the author of FreeBSD colorls. (In case you are
wondering, I ported the color_xterm to go with it too.)
In article <4j8ops$pfo@calypso.bns.com.au>
mike@calypso.bns.com.au (Michael Talbot-Wilson) writes:
* j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
*
* >mike@calypso.bns.com.au (Michael Talbot-Wilson) writes:
*
* >> The third is to compile GNU fileutils with
* >> the color patch for ls. It's a pity this is not all done for us
* >> in the distribution.
* >For most of us, colorized ls's are useless toys. Those who like it
* >can grab two of them out of the ports collection (the Linux one, and
* >yet another one).
*
* Who are we, that for most of us this is true? An ever-diminishing
* band of hair-shirted purists, rejoicing in our rejection of
* ease-of-use features, deriving our self-esteem from our exclusiveness,
* preciousness, intellectual hypertrophy, and rarity? What kick do you
* get out of this, Joerg?
Geeze, can you guys lighten up a bit? Let me tell you, colorized ls
is definitely not something to get all worked up about.
I wrote it because I wanted to use it, I made it available in the
ports collection because I thought other people might want it too.
Now there's a guy accusing FreeBSD that it's not in the base
distribution and another guy calling it a useless toy.
It makes me real sad to see people fighting over my little baby
like this.... :(
Satoshi