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From: geneSmith <gene DOT smith AT sea DOT siemens DOT com>
Subject: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:45:51 -0400
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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

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