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From:	"Joe" <jdenicola AT maxwellsystems DOT com>
Subject:	Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
Date:	Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:02:33 -0400
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Do you have ls aliased to "ls --color"?

Try:  /bin/ls | less

"geneSmith" <gene DOT smith AT sea DOT siemens DOT com> wrote in message
news:cc112h$9na$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT 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
>
> -- 
> Lit up like Levy's
>
>




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