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 12:27:53 -0400 Lines: 18 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: Joe wrote, On 7/1/2004 11:09 AM: > Either don't use color or change it to --color=auto. > > I alias ls to "ls -x -color=auto". > > Then "ls | less" gives you columns without escape codes. > > If you want a single column, use "ls -1 | less". The -1 overrides the -x in > the alias and gives one column. Or leave out the -x if you never want > columns when piping to less. Thanks for the info. However when I put alias less="less -R" in my ~/.bash_profile it seem to work and and still get colors when I do ls -l | less. -gene -- 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/