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ciupicri on May 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cronic - A cure for Cron's chronic email problem

On Red Hat based systems, ls is an alias for ls --color=auto which means that colors are used only on terminals, not pipes or files.

ajross on May 25, 2012 | [–]

And no one should ever be using ls in a shell script anyway. Shell globbing and find are the proper tools.

_swa8 on May 25, 2012 | [–]

Debian has this as well. I do "unalias -a" whenever I log into an account I haven't configured to my liking yet (I want no ls coloring, but I do want a bash prompt in boldface).

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