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Interesting use of icons.

Personally I find many different colors confusing. I've a wrapper script that highlights permissions etc. rather than using colors to distinguish them. It also makes the output of ls consistent across linux/osx/solaris/... which it does by adjusting the output from the existing ls implementations on each platform

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/l

If you want to generate html, say for converting to an email you can use http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ansi2html.sh

For example:

    your_script | ansi2html.sh --bg=dark > blah.html

or

    your_script | ansi2html.sh | mail -a "Content-Type: text/html" Your@email.com

Looks like that may drop some data if you get a short write, possible when writing to pipes etc.

Update: They fixed that issue with this follow up https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/2592fbb8

The recent commit that sped up GNU yes has a summary of the perf measurements

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/3521722

The GNU coreutils test suite would be interesting to run as it tests most syscalls in various edge cases.

Some details at http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-testing.html

That's a bit presumptuous. Not everyone is on fast internet. Even supposedly "fast" internet benefits, as I've been very surprised about connection latency issues in the US.

Also it's more secure to have a static site.

Also it's simpler to manage in the long term.

win win win

The GNU coreutils default to 128KiB buffers as per the test script at

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/ioblk...

I've a few notes on the programmatic elegance of ASCII at:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/utf8_programming.html