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Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars


Joe wrote, On 7/1/2004 9:02 AM:

Do you have ls aliased to "ls --color"?

Try: /bin/ls | less

That fixes it. Should I not use color?



"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

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