ls(1) referring to xterm-color

Ulrich Spoerlein uspoerlein at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 12:14:53 PDT 2007


Hi current,

ls(1) contains the following passage under ENVIRONMENT about color
output:

     CLICOLOR        Use ANSI color sequences to distinguish file types.  See
                     LSCOLORS below.  In addition to the file types mentioned
                     in the -F option some extra attributes (setuid bit set,
                     etc.) are also displayed.  The colorization is dependent
                     on a terminal type with the proper termcap(5) capabili-
                     ties.  The default ``cons25'' console has the proper
                     capabilities, but to display the colors in an xterm(1),
                     for example, the TERM variable must be set to
                     ``xterm-color''.  Other terminal types may require simi-
                     lar adjustments.  Colorization is silently disabled if
                     the output is not directed to a terminal unless the
                     CLICOLOR_FORCE variable is defined.

But xterm grew color support some time ago, so the reference to
'xterm-color' should probably be removed or changed to 'xterm'.


Cheers,
Ulrich Spoerlein
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