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[distro-setup] / brc

diff --git a/brc b/brc
index ad99e0ff360f5a7db129e0941a548c6ddcb54c75..5105c59611ac9f623471c6812bc27f9cc53eed75 100644 (file)
--- a/brc
+++ b/brc
@@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ export PROFILE_TASKS_TASK_OUTPUT_LIMIT=100
 export LESS=RXij12
 export SYSTEMD_LESS=$LESS
 
+
 export NNN_COLORS=2136
 
 export SL_FILES_DIR=/b/ds/sl/.iank
@@ -2138,7 +2139,7 @@ pkx() { # package extract
   c "$(mktemp -d)"
   pkg=$1
   # shellcheck disable=SC2012
-  cached=$(ls -t /var/cache/apt/archives/${pkg}_* | tail -n1 2>/dev/null) ||:
+  cached=$(ls -t /var/cache/apt/archives/${pkg}_* 2>/dev/null | tail -n1 2>/dev/null) ||:
   if [[ $cached ]]; then
     m cp $cached .
   else
@@ -2899,6 +2900,7 @@ nonet() {
 }
 
 m() { printf "%s\n" "$*";  "$@"; }
+m2() { printf "%s\n" "$*" >&2;  "$@"; }
 
 # update file. note: duplicated in mail-setup.
 # updates $ur u result to true or false
@@ -3181,9 +3183,13 @@ if $use_color && type -p tput &>/dev/null; then
   # https://github.com/trapd00r/LS_COLORS
   # I would like if there was something similar for light.
 
+  # https://www.bigsoft.co.uk/blog/2008/04/11/configuring-ls_colors
+  # change the hard to read turqouise.
+  # defaults dircolors --print-database.
+
   # the default bold green is too light.
   # this explains the codes: https://gist.github.com/thomd/7667642
-  export LS_COLORS=ex=1
+  export LS_COLORS="ex=1:ln=00;31"
 
   term_bold="$(tput bold)"
   term_red="$(tput setaf 1)"