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Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:58:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Keith Seitz <keiths AT cygnus DOT com>
To:	"Brooks, Stephen" <stephen DOT brooks AT intervoice-brite DOT co DOT uk>
cc:	"'Olivier Lefevre'" <Olivier DOT Lefevre AT genedata DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Weird ls ouput
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On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Brooks, Stephen wrote:

> > I have looked in a number of places but have failed to understand
> > why 'ls > files' produces something like this:
> >
> > ESC[0mESC[01;34mbinESC[0m/
> > ESC[01;34mdocESC[0m/
> > ESC[0mfilesESC[0m
> > ESC[01;34mi686-pc-cygwinESC[0m/
> > ESC[01;34mincludeESC[0m/
> > etc etc
> >
> > What is the issue?

These look like color codes used by ls --color... Are you trying this from
a DOS prompt? Normally this is off by default. Or at least it was in the
cygwin I installed on my new computer an hour ago.

You can force this off with "ls --color=no". I usually alias the color on
in my own shells, though.

Keith



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