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Originally Posted by Zmyrgel
Why do you say that color support in ls is ridiculous? I'd say colors quickly indicate which kind of files directory has. It's much easier to read ls output with colors.
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Actually 'ls -F' is much better IMHO, and much more reliable if you want the information retained when piping data into another program. I've found the '/', '*', '@', '=', '%', and '|' to be excellent visual indicators of things, while file and vi are more useful for inspecting a files contents. The colours are better for ascetics then anything else.
If anyone requires syntax highlighting to write code, they probably do not know how to write code in the first place. If anyone requires colour output to tell directories from files, they are probably a dipstick.
Simple.
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