It is not switched on by default and must be enabled with the -G
flag. When using ls -G the output behaviour is modified with ANSI
colour sequences wrapped around filenames to help distinguish file
types. (Colours can be redefined in the LSCOLORS environment
variable as described in the manual page.)
Colour support is silently disabled (if switched on) if stdout
isn't a tty.
Based on: asami's colorls port.
PR: bin/18900 && ports/18616.
in a long (-l) listing.
MFC-jockies should make sure that bde's concerns regarding the number
of digits required to represent a uid_t and the use of snprintf
on the associated PR have been addressed before going wild.
PR: 12866
Reported by: Philip Kizer <pckizer@nostrum.com>
Obtained from: NetBSD
effectively overriding the dynamically-sized-column feature. This
is mostly useful for non-interactive use, where it may be necessary
to ensure that listings taken at different times have columns that
line-up correctly. I have been assured that at least one large,
well-known program will soon be taking advantage of this. :-)
PR: bin/7011
Submitted by: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>
o Added the -H and -P options for treatment of symbolic links.
o Removed the #ifdef BSD4_4_LITE, since it does not seem to do anything
useful
o Fixed up prn_octal() so its output looks more like that of AT&T Unices
when -b is given.
The next two lines apply only to the first two changes above:
PR: bin/6140
Submitted by: Max Euston
o Added a new '-b' which behaves as in AT&T Unices (show unprintables in
octal, using C escape codes when possible)
o Added '?' to the getopt() string, since the code in the switch considers
it as a valid option.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
