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From: "Joe" <jdenicola AT maxwellsystems DOT com>
Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:23:48 -0400
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The only downside is if you need the output to go to a file or a pipe to a
different program.

If you still have ls aliased to "ls --color", then this:

ls > /tmp/filelist

will still put escape codes in filelist.  "ls --color=auto" won't - it will
keep it plain ascii text.

If you never do that, then it's not an issue though.

"geneSmith" <gene DOT smith AT sea DOT siemens DOT com> wrote in message
news:cc1e2r$f56$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org...
> Joe wrote, On 7/1/2004 11:09 AM:
>
> > Either don't use color or change it to --color=auto.
> >
> > I alias ls to "ls -x -color=auto".
> >
> > Then "ls | less" gives you columns without escape codes.
> >
> > If you want a single column, use "ls -1 | less".  The -1 overrides
the -x in
> > the alias and gives one column.  Or leave out the -x if you never want
> > columns when piping to less.
>
> Thanks for the info. However when I put
> alias less="less -R"
> in my ~/.bash_profile it seem to work and and still get colors when I do
> ls -l | less.
>
> -gene
>
>




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