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Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
- From: "Joe" <jdenicola at maxwellsystems dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:02:33 -0400
- Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
- References: <cc112h$9na$1@sea.gmane.org>
Do you have ls aliased to "ls --color"?
Try: /bin/ls | less
"geneSmith" <gene.smith@sea.siemens.com> wrote in message
cc112h$9na$1@sea.gmane.org">news:cc112h$9na$1@sea.gmane.org...
> When I do "ls -l | less" a typical line looks like this with "ESC" in
> reverse video and other weird chars. What causes this? Can it be fixed?
>
> -rwx------+ 1 Administ ???????? 1392640 Jul 1 08:31
> ESC[01;32mNTUSER.DATESC[0m
>
> --
> Lit up like Levy's
>
>
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