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Re: ls should not color output when --color=auto is used in environment
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: ls should not color output when --color=auto is used in environment TERM=dumb |
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Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:25:57 +0200 |
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"Lenny Domnitser" <address@hidden> writes:
> Some terminals such as M-x shell in Emacs don't understand color
> output, and set the TERM environment variable to "dumb". ls should
> check that variable when turning on color from --color=auto.
The value of TERM has no influence on the color output, only LS_COLORS
does, which is produced by dircolors (which does check TERM). The
option --color=auto is synonymous to --color=tty, it only matters
whether the output is a tty. If you don't want any colorization you
need to unset LS_COLORS.
Andreas.
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