Debian Bug report logs - #176559
coreutils: dircolors: pattern matching is too simplistic

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Package: coreutils; Maintainer for coreutils is Michael Stone <[email protected]>; Source for coreutils is src:coreutils (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: "Jeff Sheinberg" <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 18:18:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 4.5.2-1

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Report forwarded to [email protected], Jeff Sheinberg <[email protected]>, Michael Stone <[email protected]>, [email protected]:
Bug#176559; Package coreutils. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Jeff Sheinberg <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Jeff Sheinberg <[email protected]>, Michael Stone <[email protected]>, [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).

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From: Jeff Sheinberg <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: coreutils: dircolors: pattern matching is too simplistic
Date: 13 Jan 2003 18:03:52 -0000
Package: coreutils
Version: 4.5.2-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

The pattern matching for colorization is too simplistic to handle
the backup files that nvi creates.

Here is a (limited) workaround,

    *~0		30;47
    *~1		30;47
    *~2		30;47
    *~3		30;47
    *~4		30;47
    *~5		30;47
    *~6		30;47
    *~7		30;47
    *~8		30;47
    *~9		30;47
    *~10	30;47

as can be seen, besides being incomplete, this get boring real
fast.

What's needed is some kind of reasonable pattern matching, eg,
shell globbing, usenet wildmat, etc.

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Sheinberg


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/sarge
Kernel Version: Linux l1.bsrd.net 2.4.19-1 #1 Sat Aug 24 17:01:11 EDT 2002 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux


Versions of the packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.5-14.3     GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone

Severity set to `wishlist'. Request was from Michael Stone <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).

Tags added: wontfix Request was from Michael Stone <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).

Changed Bug submitter from Jeff Sheinberg <[email protected]> to "Jeff Sheinberg" <[email protected]>. Request was from "Jeff Sheinberg" <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).

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