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Re: Completion and dircolors problem



On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:21:15AM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Nov 30,  5:15pm, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> }
> } So if I understand it correctly the external command dircolors 
> } understands "LINK target" - while zsh does not ("ln=target") until 
> } 4.3.9?!
> 
> Yes, you understand correctly.
> 
> I'm not sure why this is surprising; "ln=target" is a fairly recent
> addition to ls / dircolors as well.  It's not supported on my CentOS4
> machine at home, for example.  Zsh isn't a GNU project, so it will
> always lag behind a little on significant changes to the GNU base.

Not so recent:

Sat, 8 Apr 2000 19:03:29 +0000 according to
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c7059a33aade6ad2b0548f2fcb05f9ede05295c

I was surprised, I wasn't aware of the feature.

-- 
Stéphane



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