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From: Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:29:23
Message-Id: AANLkTikZGJxeH2p5lIO_yBXZ14QshOnSHuJB2TwyQ311@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking by Etaoin Shrdlu
1 On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:35:43 +0100 Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>
3 > wrote:
4 >
5 >> How can I prevent bash of blinking when running "ls -l" on a directory
6 >> with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is really
7 >> unbearable if a directory contains lots of broken links. I didn't
8 >> manage to google my way around this problem. Maybe some other package
9 >> has to be reconfigured...
10 >
11 > Look into /etc/DIR_COLORS
12 >
13 > According to these codes:
14 >
15 > # Below are the color init strings for the basic file types. A color init
16 > # string consists of one or more of the following numeric codes:
17 > # Attribute codes:
18 > # 00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed
19 > # Text color codes:
20 > # 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white
21 > # Background color codes:
22 > # 40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white
23 >
24 > I have
25 >
26 > ORPHAN 01;05;37;41  # orphaned syminks
27 > MISSING 01;05;37;41 # ... and the files they point to
28 >
29 > So you probably want to change the 05 into something else or remove it.
30 > Just experiment and to test it do
31 >
32 > eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`
33 >
34 >
35 Thank you _a lot_
36
37 The nightmare is over!
38
39 Jorge