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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2009-09-10 08:00:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2009-09-21 12:44:35 +0100 |
| commit | 29ec834c3b076dbc1bd160ef780a58f5b086ce13 (patch) | |
| tree | aa614c9561b47765dea83f95b0310b457f8b8946 /src/ls.c | |
| parent | 983734483746b6d2de8488c263e77db93de66953 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-29ec834c3b076dbc1bd160ef780a58f5b086ce13.tar.xz | |
doc: ls: make help for --color more concise and accurate
* src/ls.c (usage): Shorten the --color ancillary info by
two lines, while replacing --color=none with --color=never.
Mention "always" is the default parameter of the --color option,
along with the primary help for that option.
Mention the ancillary --color info in the --color primary help.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/ls.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/ls.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -4553,8 +4553,8 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ -C list entries by columns\n\ - --color[=WHEN] control whether color is used to distinguish file\n\ - types. WHEN may be `never', `always', or `auto'\n\ + --color[=WHEN] colorize the output. WHEN defaults to `always'\n\ + or can be `never' or `auto'. More info below\n\ -d, --directory list directory entries instead of contents,\n\ and do not dereference symbolic links\n\ -D, --dired generate output designed for Emacs' dired mode\n\ @@ -4668,12 +4668,10 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\ emit_size_note (); fputs (_("\ \n\ -By default, color is not used to distinguish types of files. That is\n\ -equivalent to using --color=none. Using the --color option without the\n\ -optional WHEN argument is equivalent to using --color=always. With\n\ ---color=auto, color codes are output only if standard output is connected\n\ -to a terminal (tty). The environment variable LS_COLORS can influence the\n\ -colors, and can be set easily by the dircolors command.\n\ +Using color to distinguish types of files is not enabled by default, or when\n\ +--color=never is specified. With --color=auto, color codes are output only\n\ +when standard output is connected to a terminal. The LS_COLORS environment\n\ +variable can change the default codes and can be set using dircolors command.\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ \n\ |