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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended?
Date: 28 Mar 1996 17:44:11 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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jmurray@vt.edu (John Murray) wrote:
] Personaly I don't see color ls as an else of use feature, I see as something
] that some people like and some people don't like. As I said before color ls
] is not a system neccesity for installiton and inital setup and color ls can
] be added with one command. Also about the usless toy line Joerg for some,
] and based on your comments you aren't one of these some.
It is useful for people who don't know what files are on their
computer, or the file types.
For instance, if you untar an archive called "foo.tar", it's
useful to see "foo" highlighted as an executable (more useful
if you didn't read the name of the archive before you untarred
it, I guess...).
Those of us who know the systems we use, or those of us who
are end users and spend time only in our own directories, are
generally well aware of our past actions.
I suppose the best summation is that it's useful for people who
rm a file and then do an ls "to make sure it's really gone".
8-) for the humor impaired.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.