Re: [PATCH] ls: Use pretty UTF-8 arrow when showing where symlinks point to

[Pádraig Brady]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> 
>   - It's easy to get nearly the same effect with a simple filter,
>       as Pádraig suggested.  (of course, a naive filter fails if
>       a file name contains " -> ", but the end result is solely for
>       human consumption, not for mechanical parsing, so that's ok)
> 
> Just by the way, I compared your arrow and the one Pádraig
> used in his example:
> 
>     $ printf 'a -> b\n'
>     a -> b
>     $ printf 'a \xe2\x86\x92 b\n'
>     a → b
>     $ printf 'a \u25aa\u25b6 b\n'
>     a ▪▶ b

Just to address my OCD, the example alias I posted would not work
as somewhere along the line in pasting over a vnc session the
unicode characters were mangled. Also the previous alias didn't
precompute as much as it could, so:

alias lsf="ls -l --color | sed 's/ -> / $(tput bold)▪▶$(tput sgr0) /'"

cheers,
Pádraig.