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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:14:35 -0400
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or switch the alias to "ls --color=auto", which will color for a simple ls
but not when redirecting stdout.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 9:03 AM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars

Do you have ls aliased to "ls --color"?

Try:  /bin/ls | less

"geneSmith" <gene DOT smith AT sea DOT siemens DOT com> 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

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