[18366] in Athena Bugs
linux : Color ls in system login script
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tolulope O Okusanya)
Mon Oct 2 16:18:28 2000
Message-Id: <200010022018.QAA09758@surveyor.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 16:18:23 -0400
From: Tolulope O Okusanya <tolulope@MIT.EDU>
System name: surveyor.mit.edu
Type and version: i586
Display type: XFree86 3.3.6 SVGA
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: mwm
What were you trying to do?
Typing "ls" takes a significant amount of time if the current
directory contains several files.
What's wrong:
In the login script [/etc/csh.login], there is a section which
sets up "ls" to color filenames upon display. The script section is
test -d /etc/profile.d
if ($status == 0) then
set nonomatch
foreach i ( /etc/profile.d/*.csh )
test -f $i
if ($status == 0) then
source $i
endif
end
unset i nonomatch
endif
There are two files called colorls.sh and colorls.csh which alias "ls"
so that it tries to color the filename output. Doing this significantly
slows down the shell such that it appears to hang if there are several
files in the directory.
What should have happened:
There are perhaps two possible fixes to this
(1) Disable loading the colorls files by some environment variable or
simply removing these files if they are not essential
(2) unaliasing the aliased commands ["ls", "l." and "ll"] after the
system files are loaded
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