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My distro's ls already does coloring by default. It turns it off somehow if it detects the output is a pipe, so that "ls | less" still works. It also turns off
by ReactiveJelly 6y ago
My distro's ls already does coloring by default. It turns it off somehow if it detects the output is a pipe, so that "ls | less" still works. It also turns off multi-column in that case, so "ls | wc -l" counts directory entries.
- boulos 6y agohttps://linux.die.net/man/3/isatty https://linux.die.net/man/3/isatty :)