Re: dircolors enhancement: warn on unknown TERM

[Jim Meyering]

Ed Avis <address@hidden> wrote:
> The .dir_colors input file for dircolors(1) has a list of terminal
> types that are colorizable.  It would be helpful to also have an
> explicit list in that config file of terminal types that should not be
> colorized.  Then if the value of $TERM is unknown dircolors can print
> a warning.
>
> If you don't want to issue a warning in the general case then at least
> do so when stdout is a tty.  In this day and age all terminals are
> colour-capable and ls(1) assumes this.  Dircolors produces empty
> output on a tty that's not recognized.  But an empty LS_COLORS
> environment variable does not tell ls to avoid colorization, just to
> use the default colour scheme.

Hi Ed,

What do you think about doing the test yourself?

  $ dircolors -p|grep "^TERM $TERM\$"
  TERM xterm