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RE: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
- From: "Clemson, Chris" <Chris dot Clemson at softwareag dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:50:02 +0100
- Subject: RE: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
> 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?
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