Listings Question About Ping

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 23 01:15:00 UTC 2011


On 2011/12/22 17:04, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 2:52 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> That's why my .bashrc contains this line:
>>
>> alias ls=ls
>>
>> That gets rid of the colors that somebody "helpfully" decided that everybody
>> wants.
>
> Joe:
>
> My F14 Linux box is getting repaired so I can't test ... what is this alias
> changing about 'ls'? I don't remember seeing any factory-setting .bashrc that
> has ls aliased to ls with some options?

It's been standard since RedHat 5.something, at least.

It is in your .bashrc if you make a stock install and don't copy in a fixed
.bashrc.

{^_^}


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