Color aliasing. Was Re: Awk and sort (of text files)

[jd1008]

On 06/29/2015 01:51 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 06/29/2015 12:36 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> The colours are defined in the LS_COLORS environment variable.  You can
>> use `dircolors -p` to see what means what.  The colours are shown as
>> ANSI escape sequences.  You can "see" them by printing them like this:
>>
>>    $ echo -e '\e[00;36mfoo\e[0m'
>>
>> where \e[...m wraps the escape sequence.
>
> Yes, and I know that there is a list somewhere of the human readable 
> names, or at least I know that I found one years ago. There's no 
> reason that those names can't be used, either instead of, or along 
> with the escape sequences.  And, I object to the maintainers assuming 
> that everybody wants color instead of making it an option.  (That is, 
> putting the alias in .bashrc, possibly commented by default instead of 
> hiding it in /etc/bashrc where most users would be afraid to make 
> changes, and it gets overwritten with every update.)  I understand why 
> developers/maintainers tend to set things up with their own personal 
> preferences, but I do wish that more of them would at least try to 
> resist the temptation.  I've never experimented with other shells; do 
> they do the same type of thing, or is this mostly bash-specific.
>
> (I've edited the subject line here because this fork of the thread 
> isn't about awk or sort any more, but I don't want to change the 
> threading.)
I use ksh because I have developed so many functions that ksh
understands, I stuck with it. It serves me well.