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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.gtn.com!knobel.gun.de!usenet From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended? Date: 13 Apr 1996 12:03:04 GMT Lines: 50 Message-ID: <4ko55o$1qg@knobel.gun.de> References: <4ih5qb$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> <4jeim7$cde@park.uvsc.edu> <4jgj3f$lal@coyote.artisoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.gun.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.5 In article <4jgj3f$lal@coyote.artisoft.com>, mday@elbereth.org (Matt Day) writes: >In article <4jeim7$cde@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >> [.. argument over value of colorized ls ..] >> >I have found the colorized ls extremely useful for answering questions >like "which files are executables in this directory?", But what, if the user reconfigured it to use another color ;-))) "Delete the blue ones" :->> >"are there any >subdirectories in this directory?", simply type du, then you see all directories recursive... >etc. I think that most people will >agree that it is easier to tell if the output of ls contained any green >text than if the output contained any files with a "*" following them >(ala ls -F). If you use neither ls -F nor the colorized ls, you're >forced to rely on your memory of the file modes to answer those >questions, which I suspect would be much slower and much more prone to >error, especially if you've never been in the directory before. Ahem ... an executable file has an x, a directory a d ... it's a really complicate world, isnt it ?! Really complicated is Win95... So you additionally have to remember icons ;-)) >I don't know why the color is so distracting for you, but I guess >everybody is different. The color doesn't slow down my brain's ability >to search the sorted output for a specific file. Some colors don't make a good contrast on the screen, it makes my eyes tired ... blue on black is to few contrast, red on black bites... and so on ... But as I said. Make a port or use a port and now please finish the worthless affort to turn "us" to colored oerating mode ;-)) >I highly recommend the colorized ls. I think most people's brains are >capable of using the color to speed up processing of the ls output. It >is definitely not a useless, silly feature reserved for Unix newbies. As a rule of thumb: In a republican boat you don't vote for democrates ;-)) -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<