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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 09:59:10AM -0800, David Moberg wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 04:14:14PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> >
> > >> Try the larger (non-busybox) ls, which will work without color.
> > >> The  buxybox one is hardwired to color.
> >
> > I was afraid of that.
> >
> > > > ls --color=never
> >
> > Didn't work.
> 
> Try this:
> 
> ls -C | cat
> 
> This worked on an earlier version of BL3, but Steven upgraded busybox
> since then so I'm not sure if it still works. It should unless the
> busybox developers changed it. It worked because ls checked if the
> output was going to a terminal, and turned color off if it was not.
> 
> A script with just the above (and "$@" to add additional arguments)
> should be smaller and simpler than the full-size ls.

Already have it installed. Tried renaming it and recreating
the link to busybox. Did the above. Worked well, but when
I tried aliases I ran into problems. So it would have to
be a real script. Have to go on the backburner for now.

As an aside, do you have any idea why I keep finding unwanted
copies of files in various directories? I just found one
of /etc/passwd! I didn't even modify that file!

Now I suddenly find _these_ in ~/Mail:

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Dec 23 13:18 inbox.idx
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root            1 Dec 23 13:18 inbox.str

The second one has only "^@" in it!!!


Thanks,

Lee

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