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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!ns.saard.net!news.camtech.com.au!calypso.bns.com.au!not-for-mail From: mike@calypso.bns.com.au (Michael Talbot-Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended? Date: 28 Mar 1996 15:37:40 +1030 Organization: Calypso & That Jazz Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4jd6qs$s3@calypso.bns.com.au> References: <4ih5qb$lae@blackice.winternet.com> <4ik5p6$qm6@helena.mt.net> <DoJrqo.6F9@twwells.com> <4j0sto$scs@calypso.bns.com.au> <4j4fmh$5e8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4j8ops$pfo@calypso.bns.com.au> <xcd7mw73ld5.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: calypso.bns.com.au X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #3 csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton) writes: >Our friend, mike@calypso.bns.com.au (Michael Talbot-Wilson), wrote: >> 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. >> >> >There would be far too many people disagreeing with you in this point. >but it drives me mad with gnu ls. >... >It drives me up the wall. That fury is not rational, you know. An illuminating post on the reason why "most of us" would disagree with me. The guess I made in the previous post seems not too far wide of the mark. Your chosen self-image has driven you to an artificial abhorrence of a feature which could raise but could not diminish your productivity and that of others on your system.