Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: geneSmith Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:06:16 -0400 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.168.89.166 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 In-Reply-To: Clemson, Chris wrote, On 7/1/2004 8:50 AM: >>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 > > > that looks suspiciously like ANSI (colour) escape codes. > is your terminal setting correct? > $ echo $TERM xterm $ env | grep -i term COLORTERM=rxvt-xpm TERM=xterm $ env | grep -i less LESSCHARSET=latin1 What are the "correct" setting and how do you set them? Also, my less man page is totally messed up. All other man pages seem to work. Thanks, -gene -- Lit up like Levy's -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/