Bug 306

Summary:	dircolors: Unknown option --
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sandy McArthur <Sandy>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	Lowest
Version:	1.0 RC6 r14
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sandy McArthur 2002-01-24 04:18:54 UTC

Despite what `man dircolors` says the dircolors from the fileutils-4.1.4 package
does not acutally support double hypen switches (eg: --sh). The file
/etc/skel/.bash_profile has the line: "eval `dircolors --sh`" which causes the
error "dircolors: Unknown option --" to be generated at every user login with
the default .bash_profile file. The fix is to use the '-b' switch instead which
means the same thing as '--sh'.

Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-01-24 12:17:50 UTC

Try remerging sys-apps/fileutils.  It *should* install 4.1.4-r1 by default,
which include the updated dircolors that supports zsh, etc.  This should also
install the updated manpage.

the skel files is my fault.  I forgot to update them after I updated dircolors.
Thanks!

Comment 2 Sandy McArthur 2002-01-24 15:04:02 UTC

yup, `emerge sys-apps/fileutils/` fixed the man page.