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From:	geneSmith <gene DOT smith AT sea DOT siemens DOT com>
Subject:	Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
Date:	Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:12:07 -0400
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Joe wrote, On 7/1/2004 9:02 AM:

> Do you have ls aliased to "ls --color"?
> 
> Try:  /bin/ls | less

That fixes it. Should I not use color?

> 
> "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


-- 
Lit up like Levy's


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