From 565c808c0b732cca4579f7e8883e7aaac3c3aa62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:52:27 +1200
Subject: Add lore()

---
 sh/shrc.d/lore.sh | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 sh/shrc.d/lore.sh

(limited to 'sh')

diff --git a/sh/shrc.d/lore.sh b/sh/shrc.d/lore.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2d7c0bec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sh/shrc.d/lore.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Pipe ls(1) output through PAGER; mostly to preserve coloring interactively
+# through less(1), but it'll work fine with plain ls(1) and more(1)
+lore() {
+
+    # Add --color=always if the terminal has at least 8 colors; we have to add
+    # "always" to coax ls(1) into emitting colors even though it can tell its
+    # stdout isn't a terminal but a pager
+    [ -e "$HOME"/.cache/ls/color ] &&
+    [ "$({ tput colors || tput Co ; } 2>/dev/null)" -ge 8 ] &&
+        set -- --color=always "$@"
+
+    # Prefer -A/--almost-all (exclude "." and "..") if available
+    if [ -e "$HOME"/.cache/ls/almost-all ] ; then
+        set -- -Al "$@"
+    else
+        set -- -al "$@"
+    fi
+
+    # Run whatever `ls` gives us; it might be our function wrapper; that's OK
+    ls "$@" |
+
+    # Run the appropriate pager; if it's less(1), we can tack on -R (though my
+    # ~/.lesskey does this anyway)
+    case $PAGER in
+        less) "$PAGER" -R ;;
+        *) "$PAGER" ;;
+    esac
+}
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