> more likely is its aliased to "ls --color=auto" or similar which will work normally. My ls (which I haven't much reconfigured) behaves very differently depen

> more likely is its aliased to "ls --color=auto" or similar which will work normally. My ls (which I haven't much reconfigured) behaves very differently depending on whether it's outputting to a shell or a pipe or redirect. Not just colours, but columning and filetype indicators as well.