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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Building a Linux like LS for Unix Post 44345 by linuxpenguin on Thursday 4th of December 2003 02:22:55 PM
Old 12-04-2003
Hi,
You are configuring ls using ls :O
the script you have below is using ls twice to show you the output of ls once.
I think this will affect the performance of your command badly. If one has to try it on a huge list of files, it will take long time, for example even just ls in /tmp on my system at work place takes about 4-5 seconds to start displaying the output.
I think performance is important. Probably you can write the ls program yourself and then withing it try using the colors.
or if you still want to stick to the script, then I would suggest you to take the output from the first ls in some variable array.

as for the colours effect, check google for lscolors. Besides what unix are you using at your work place. The emulator you are using, does it support the colors.
In your script you can check the file type using "test" and then decide what color you want to display the file in. do look for man help. It will tell you how to check the file type
e.g (in ksh} to display files of type "file" in bold

test -d filename
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo "\033[1m $filename \033[0m"
fi

you can use case instead of if

returns 0 if filename is a directory

oops lotsa stuff
hope it helps
 

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NPM-RUN-SCRIPT(1)                                                                                                                NPM-RUN-SCRIPT(1)

NAME
npm-run-script - Run arbitrary package scripts SYNOPSIS
npm run-script <command> [--silent] [-- <args>...] alias: npm run DESCRIPTION
This runs an arbitrary command from a package's "scripts" object. If no "command" is provided, it will list the available scripts. run[-script] is used by the test, start, restart, and stop commands, but can be called directly, as well. When the scripts in the package are printed out, they're separated into lifecycle (test, start, restart) and directly-run scripts. As of ` https://blog.npmjs.org/post/98131109725/npm-2-0-0, you can use custom arguments when executing scripts. The special option -- is used by getopt https://goo.gl/KxMmtG to delimit the end of the options. npm will pass all the arguments after the -- directly to your script: npm run test -- --grep="pattern" The arguments will only be passed to the script specified after npm run and not to any pre or post script. The env script is a special built-in command that can be used to list environment variables that will be available to the script at run- time. If an "env" command is defined in your package, it will take precedence over the built-in. In addition to the shell's pre-existing PATH, npm run adds node_modules/.bin to the PATH provided to scripts. Any binaries provided by locally-installed dependencies can be used without the node_modules/.bin prefix. For example, if there is a devDependency on tap in your package, you should write: "scripts": {"test": "tap test/*.js"} instead of "scripts": {"test": "node_modules/.bin/tap test/*.js"} to run your tests. The actual shell your script is run within is platform dependent. By default, on Unix-like systems it is the /bin/sh command, on Windows it is the cmd.exe. The actual shell referred to by /bin/sh also depends on the system. As of ` https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v5.1.0 you can customize the shell with the script-shell configuration. Scripts are run from the root of the module, regardless of what your current working directory is when you call npm run. If you want your script to use different behavior based on what subdirectory you're in, you can use the INIT_CWD environment variable, which holds the full path you were in when you ran npm run. npm run sets the NODE environment variable to the node executable with which npm is executed. Also, if the --scripts-prepend-node-path is passed, the directory within which node resides is added to the PATH. If --scripts-prepend-node-path=auto is passed (which has been the default in npm v3), this is only performed when that node executable is not found in the PATH. If you try to run a script without having a node_modules directory and it fails, you will be given a warning to run npm install, just in case you've forgotten. You can use the --silent flag to prevent showing npm ERR! output on error. You can use the --if-present flag to avoid exiting with a non-zero exit code when the script is undefined. This lets you run potentially undefined scripts without breaking the execution chain. SEE ALSO
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