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Re: color ls



Wichert Akkerman writes:
> > I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder why the
> > old one isn't removed automatically? Is there a reason for this?
> 
> Some monitors make text unreadable (cheap laptops for example) when you use
> colors. Maybe a postinst-script could ask if color-ls should be the new
> default, move ls to ls-normal and make ls a link to color-ls.

I do not understand the problem. If you're monitor doesn't like the colors
why don't you simply not call dircolors? Then the new ls doesn't have colors
at all.

Michael

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