Commands with options: (was: war story: parallel(1) command)

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

Whoops.

ls -colour works, the directories are a different colour.
ls -colour | more does not work, the directories are the same colour.

ls -d is claimed in the manual entry to list directories, but it just
lists the current directory. Has anyone actually used this feature?

Interestingly ls -d /* does list directories...and in colour. Piping that
to 'more' removes the colour.

Peter


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