[TUHS] TECO was: Re: basic tools / Universal Unix

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Thu Nov 16 19:19:31 AEST 2017


Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> Speaking of which, am I the only one annoyed by Penguin/OS' silly coloured 
> "ls" output?  I can never remember how to turn off that frippery, as the 
> contrast is particularly hard on my eyes; the minimalist "F" flag works 
> just fine.

I *think* that's because some global file does something like

	alias ls='ls --colors'

You can verify with

	type ls

Try running

	unalias ls

and see if that helps.

Arnold



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