Re: ls

[Eric Blake]

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According to Alfred M. Szmidt on 10/2/2005 5:39 AM:
> Anyway, this is already documented in the info manual:
> 
> ,----[ (coreutils)dircolors invocation ]
> | 10.4 `dircolors': Color setup for `ls'
> | ======================================
> | 
> | `dircolors' outputs a sequence of shell commands to set up the terminal
> | for color output from `ls' (and `dir', etc.).  Typical usage:
> | 
> |      eval `dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]`

Actually, in 5.90, the documentation recommends
  eval "`dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]`"
to combat against specially named files causing a mild security hole.

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