[BusyBox] /bin/ls color

Steve Dover sw0rdf1sh at charter.net
Tue Jan 4 02:16:35 UTC 2005


Penelope Fudd wrote:
> Package: BusyBox
> Version: 1.00
> 
> When I execute BusyBox 'ls -l' it produces colorized output.  With
> regular 'ls -l', I get colorized output that I can turn off.
> 
> The problem is that the colors in BusyBox's ls were chosen for a black
> background, and I'm using a white background, making it very hard to
> read.  I'd like to turn off the color with an environment variable or
> command-line flag, but I can't.
> 
As a quick and dirty workaround, I use the tool
with excellent night vision:

ls -l | cat






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