Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Joe" Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:02:33 -0400 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 146.145.51.166 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 Do you have ls aliased to "ls --color"? Try: /bin/ls | less "geneSmith" 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 > > -- 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/