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


On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:55:39AM -0400, geneSmith wrote:
>Luc Hermitte wrote, On 7/1/2004 9:14 AM:
>>* On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:06:16AM -0400, geneSmith
>><gene.smith@sea.siemens.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Also, my less man page is totally messed up. All other man pages
>>>seem to work.
>>
>>
>>I have export PAGER='less -R' in my .bashrc
>>
>>HTH,
>
>Oops, I misspoke. It is my rxvt man page that is messed up. I see stuff 
>like this when I do
>man rxvt
>I see stuff like this:
>
>
>    .YODLTAGSTART.  roffcmd  .SH  "NAME"  .YODLTAGEND.  rxvt (ouR
>XVT) - a VT102 emulator for  the  X  window  system.YODLTAGSTART.
>roffcmd .PP .YODLTAGEND.
>
>Setting PAGER does not seem to affect anything for me.
>
>Anyhow,when I do
>alias less="less -R"
>
>My ls -l | less problem is solved.

So, the moral of the story is: "man less".

cgf

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