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From: geneSmith <gene DOT smith AT sea DOT siemens DOT com>
Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:06:16 -0400
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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


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