Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Authentication-Warning: makita.cygnus.com: keiths owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:58:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Keith Seitz To: "Brooks, Stephen" cc: "'Olivier Lefevre'" , Subject: RE: Weird ls ouput In-Reply-To: <7D90C72D2739D311B4DA0090279361BD0195EE74@itmailman1.man.brite.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/