Sure. As this is a standard Ubuntu install, ls is indeed aliased to "ls --color" - but afaik ls as standard detects pipes, and turns off color (so you don't ge

Sure. As this is a standard Ubuntu install, ls is indeed aliased to "ls --color" - but afaik ls as standard detects pipes, and turns off color (so you don't get a lot of control characters if you do "ls --color | sort > file.txt". Unless you use --color=always if I recall correctly. Just wanted to differentiate between "select * from documents" and "select count(*) from documents" being slow.