colorized ls

[Rick Pasotto]

What did I update recently that caused me to lose ls coloring with this
error message:

ls: unrecognized prefix: hl
ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable

How should I fix it?
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Post by Rick Pasotto
What did I update recently that caused me to lose ls coloring with this
ls: unrecognized prefix: hl
ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable
How should I fix it?

In academic interest you can look what LS_COLORS environment variable contain:

$ echo $LS_COLORS

After that you can look what's wrong with it.

Fix is pretty easy:

$ eval `dircolors`

Read man pages for dircolors(1) and dir_colors(5) for most complete reference.
Note that you should place command mentioned above to .bashrc (or .zshrc, or
whatever your shell' config is) so it will run every time shell starts.

[d***@gmail.com]

Post by Rick Pasotto
What did I update recently that caused me to lose ls coloring with this
ls: unrecognized prefix: hl
ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable
How should I fix it?

If you are using system-wide definitions, edit /etc/dir_colors and
comment the offending line. There should be one.
Also, check the manpage `man dircolors'. You might want to rebuild the
definitions. Backup /etc/dir_colors before. Better yet, does
`dircolors -b' contain the offending line causing the error?
I'm guessing you use bash.

[Rick Pasotto]

Post by d***@gmail.com

Post by Rick Pasotto
What did I update recently that caused me to lose ls coloring with this
ls: unrecognized prefix: hl
ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable
How should I fix it?

If you are using system-wide definitions, edit /etc/dir_colors and
comment the offending line. There should be one.

There is no such file /etc/dir_colors. According to the man page, debian
does not use and ignores both /etc/dir_colors and ~/.dir_colors.

Post by d***@gmail.com
Also, check the manpage `man dircolors'. You might want to rebuild the
definitions. Backup /etc/dir_colors before. Better yet, does
`dircolors -b' contain the offending line causing the error?

'dircolors' uses a precompiled database. It evidently changed recently.
It's in coreutils and that did upgrade today but the changelog doesn't
say anything about it.

Why was it changed? How does one discover info like that?

Post by d***@gmail.com
I'm guessing you use bash.

Yes.
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[Rick Pasotto]

Post by Rick Pasotto
What did I update recently that caused me to lose ls coloring with this

What exactly (Stable, Testing, Sid) did you update, and what command
did you use to update it?

Testing. aptitude.

Post by Rick Pasotto
ls: unrecognized prefix: hl
ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable
How should I fix it?

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Post by Rick Pasotto

Post by Rick Pasotto
What did I update recently that caused me to lose ls coloring with this

What exactly (Stable, Testing, Sid) did you update, and what command
did you use to update it?

Testing. aptitude.

There's a dozen different upgrade methods. Which one did you use?

Post by Rick Pasotto

Post by Rick Pasotto
ls: unrecognized prefix: hl
ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable
How should I fix it?

[Ron Johnson]

Post by Rick Pasotto
What did I update recently that caused me to lose ls coloring with this

What exactly (Stable, Testing, Sid) did you update, and what command
did you use to update it?

Post by Rick Pasotto
ls: unrecognized prefix: hl
ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable
How should I fix it?

[godo]

Post by Rick Pasotto
What did I update recently that caused me to lose ls coloring with this
ls: unrecognized prefix: hl
ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable
How should I fix it?

Hi,
looks like coreutils bug
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544871

Which version you have?
My is 8.5-1 and I don't have problem with ls coloring.
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[SM]

Post by Rick Pasotto
What did I update recently that caused me to lose ls coloring with this
ls: unrecognized prefix: hl
ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable
How should I fix it?

Sourcing my alias file fixed it for me. Zsh in use.

[Mart Frauenlob]

Post by Rick Pasotto
What did I update recently that caused me to lose ls coloring with this
ls: unrecognized prefix: hl
ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable
How should I fix it?

Using lenny here, but it has been set in .bashrc afaik at least for the
last 3 debian releases. Doesn't your ~/.bashrc contain something like:

# You may uncomment the following lines if you want `ls' to be colorized:
export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto'
eval "`dircolors`"
alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS'


Best regards

Mart