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 Message-ID: From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:14:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes 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" 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 -- 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/