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Re: ls --color: special char in redirected output


On Monday, 23 June 2014, 14:57, Thomas Anderson <t03.anders0n@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, after a recent upgrade (maybe the 20) I have some problem with
> special characters and ls --color
>
> For example:
>
> $ ls --color
> file.txt  temp/
>
> is ok
>
> but
> 
> $ ls --color > ls.txt
> 
> is not
> 
> $ less ls.txt
>
> file.txt
> ls.txt
> ESC[0mESC[01;34mtempESC[0m/
>
>
> I'm on Windows 7 with the 32 bit version.
>
> Bye,
> t03

Try ls --color=auto  or  ls --color=tty
or set an alias:  alias ls='ls --color=tty'


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