Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Thanks for the quick report!
>> I wonder why I can't reproduce it here...
>
> I think you identified the problem as being associated with the
> LS_COLORS variable.  I am running with 'env -i ...stuff...' and so

Ah ha!

With env -i, there would be no TERM setting, so dircolors -b
would output this:

  LS_COLORS='';
  export LS_COLORS

So another fix would have been to set e.g., TERM=xterm in the environment.