Re: How to make the colors different for a symbol link pointing to a file and symbol link pointing to a dir?

[Eric Blake]

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According to Peng Yu on 12/30/2009 8:34 PM:
>> I wouldn't be on for adding more color combinations to handle
>> cases like this. Perhaps a combination of "LINK target" with the
>> -F option would suffice. That would use the color of the target
>> while also distinguishing symlinks with an appended "@".
> 
> I'm not sure if you understand me correctly.
> 
> I tried -F. It will append all the symlinks with '@' no matter whether
> they point to files or directories. I want to distinguish these two
> cases somehow whether by color or by appended symbol. But -F can help
> me distinguish the two case.

Use -F to distinguish between symlinks and other files via the appended @.
 Use "LINK target" to distinguish between symlinks to directories vs.
symlinks to files via the color.  So using both pieces together gives you
a full picture of what a particular name represents, with no new code needed.

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