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Re: 1.7.9/WinXP: dircolors error


On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 07:55:17AM -0800, Jon Seidel CMC wrote:
>Running the following:
>  dircolors -b > .dircolors
>  dircolors -b .dircolors
>results in the error:
>  .dircolors:1: invalid line;  missing second token
>
>This works just fine on a Win7 installation of the same 1.7.9 
>version. Couldn't find anything more recent than a 2006 reference to 
>this error in the list archives
>
>I did find that modifying and using the Mandrake /etc/DIR_COLORS file 
>as follows:
>  cp /etc/DIR_COLORS ~/.DIR_COLORS
>  dircolors -b ~/.DIR_COLORS
>works just fine
>
>Thanks...jon--
>Jon Seidel CMC
>Effective Decisions... Priceless!

Three separate messages on this subject is two more than adequate,
especially when you already received a response.

Please stop the spamming.

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