On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote:

> jack wallen jr wrote:
> > 
> > what is the diff between running 'ls --color=tty' and just 'ls --color?'
> 
> ls --color will always output color.  ls --color=tty will only output
> color when stdout is a tty.
> 

I usually use 'ls --color=auto' to get around this problem.

Bill Carlson
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