From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org, "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
Subject: Re: global fdisk colors disable
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:27:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140115082708.GH12700@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52D62F0C.9060308@earthlink.net>
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 01:47:40AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Is there a way to do $SUBJECT? One really shouldn't have to resort to using
> -L on every invocation to be able to see fdisk output.
Does it mean that fdisk output is broken or you just don't like
colors? You can use:
alias fdisk=fdisk -L=never
in your shell profile or rc file.
> I see nothing in the
> man page about any kind of config file. I don't think there's ever been a
> reason to configure it before.
Well, I guess that more people prefer colorized output so this
feature is enabled by default.
I have already thought about it and it would be probably nice to have
a way how to globally configure colors for all command line utils
(e.g. util-linux, coreutils, ...).
It seems we have no standard and package independent solution now,
so distributions use things like "alias" in shell profile files (for
example for ls(1), grep(1), ...). It would be nice to have at least
global variable (something like COLOR_MODE={auto,never,always}) to
avoid aliases with --color= option. (CC: Padraig ;-)
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-15 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-15 6:47 global fdisk colors disable Felix Miata
2014-01-15 8:27 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2014-01-15 9:30 ` Pádraig Brady
2014-01-15 10:24 ` Karel Zak
2014-01-15 14:14 ` Felix Miata
2014-01-15 14:10 ` Felix Miata
2014-01-15 15:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-16 9:24 ` Felix Miata
2014-01-16 9:59 ` Karel Zak
2014-01-15 17:11 ` Karel Zak
2014-01-16 9:06 ` Felix Miata
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