Re: Way to bypass or disable for ls hard link highlighting

[Pádraig Brady]

Wes Morgan wrote:
> The new "hard link" highlighting would be nicer if it was optional. I
> have lots of files with an "original" name that are also hard links to a
> canonicalized version in another directory hierarchy. Instead of showing
> the original coloring based on the extension, they show the hard link
> coloring. Perhaps a special code for dircolors that tells "ls" to ignore
> a class of highlighting and continue searching for another match.

That change was made recently:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-10/msg00172.html
Kamil indicated in that bug report that existing colors should take
precedence over the hardlink color. This is the case for executable files
for example, but not files whose color depends on name.
This is a regression IMHO.

eval $(dircolors)
touch t.png
ln t.png t2.png
ls -lrt --color

cheers,
Pádraig.