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


Joe wrote, On 7/1/2004 11:09 AM:

Either don't use color or change it to --color=auto.

I alias ls to "ls -x -color=auto".

Then "ls | less" gives you columns without escape codes.

If you want a single column, use "ls -1 | less".  The -1 overrides the -x in
the alias and gives one column.  Or leave out the -x if you never want
columns when piping to less.

Thanks for the info. However when I put
alias less="less -R"
in my ~/.bash_profile it seem to work and and still get colors when I do ls -l | less.


-gene


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