How to eliminate "ls" color in xterm -

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 11:20, Mike.Kent at indystar.com wrote:
> Thanks! That works with vi, too, like \vi and no color. Anyone know where
> this is documented?
> 

This is a feature of the shell.
\ls and \vi force use of the base application instead of using the
alias.  By default the shell uses the alias if one exists.

On mine I by default was given these aliases among others.
  alias l.='ls -d .* --color=tty'
  alias ll='ls -l --color=tty'
  alias ls='ls --color=tty'
  alias vi='vim'
Thus the \vi forces use of vi instead of vim and \ls uses ls without the
color option.

A very good reference on commands and how shells work would be "Unix
Shell Programming" or "Linux in a Nutshell"  They both are outstanding
desktop references.
 
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>                       Michael Schwendt                                                                                                   
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> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 05:14:26 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
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> > How can I eliminate color in "ls" listings?
> >
> > In .bashrc  can add    alias ls='ls --color=never'
> >
> > But this does not change the listing in the gui terminal window.
> >
> > There must be a place to "alias" ls  for something like    ls -l --si
> > --color=never  ?
> 
> I type \ls instead of ls when I don't want the colours.