This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
RE: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:14:35 -0400
- Subject: RE: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
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@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
Do you have ls aliased to "ls --color"?
Try: /bin/ls | less
"geneSmith" <gene.smith@sea.siemens.com> wrote in message
cc112h$9na$1@sea.gmane.org">news:cc112h$9na$1@sea.gmane.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/