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? -- The content of this e-mail is confidential, may contain privileged material and is intended solely for the recipient(s) named above. If you receive this in error, please notify Software AG immediately and delete this e-mail. Software AG (UK) Limited Registered in England Wales 1310740 Registered Office: Hudson House, Hudson Way, Pride Park, Derby DE24 8HS -- 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/
Re: ls -l | less shows escape chars
Do you have ls aliased to ls --color? Try: /bin/ls | less geneSmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- Lit up like Levy's -- 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/
Re: ls -l | less shows escape chars
Clemson, Chris wrote, On 7/1/2004 8:50 AM: 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? $ echo $TERM xterm $ env | grep -i term COLORTERM=rxvt-xpm TERM=xterm $ env | grep -i less LESSCHARSET=latin1 What are the correct setting and how do you set them? Also, my less man page is totally messed up. All other man pages seem to work. Thanks, -gene -- Lit up like Levy's -- 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/
Re: ls -l | less shows escape chars
Joe wrote, On 7/1/2004 9:02 AM: Do you have ls aliased to ls --color? Try: /bin/ls | less That fixes it. Should I not use color? geneSmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- Lit up like Levy's -- Lit up like Levy's -- 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/
RE: ls -l | less shows escape chars
that looks suspiciously like ANSI (colour) escape codes. is your terminal setting correct? $ echo $TERM xterm hmm, try setting TERM to vt100 or something, as that's quite a simple terminal type and doesn't do anything fancy other than bold and underline. of course, if your terminfo/termcap stuff knows about cygwin, you could set TERM=cygwin instead. chris -- The content of this e-mail is confidential, may contain privileged material and is intended solely for the recipient(s) named above. If you receive this in error, please notify Software AG immediately and delete this e-mail. Software AG (UK) Limited Registered in England Wales 1310740 Registered Office: Hudson House, Hudson Way, Pride Park, Derby DE24 8HS -- 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/
Re: ls -l | less shows escape chars
Hello, * On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:06:16AM -0400, geneSmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, my less man page is totally messed up. All other man pages seem to work. I have export PAGER='less -R' in my .bashrc HTH, -- Luc Hermitte -- 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/
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows escape chars Do you have ls aliased to ls --color? Try: /bin/ls | less geneSmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
Re: ls -l | less shows escape chars
Luc Hermitte wrote, On 7/1/2004 9:14 AM: Hello, * On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:06:16AM -0400, geneSmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, my less man page is totally messed up. All other man pages seem to work. I have export PAGER='less -R' in my .bashrc HTH, man less started working again. I don't know why. Anyhow, when I do ls -l | less -R it works fine and I see correct colors and no ESC chars. Without the -R it is it is messed up. -- Lit up like Levy's -- 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/
Re: ls -l | less shows escape chars
Clemson, Chris wrote, On 7/1/2004 9:13 AM: that looks suspiciously like ANSI (colour) escape codes. is your terminal setting correct? $ echo $TERM xterm hmm, try setting TERM to vt100 or something, as that's quite a simple terminal type and doesn't do anything fancy other than bold and underline. of course, if your terminfo/termcap stuff knows about cygwin, you could set TERM=cygwin instead. chrisb export TERM=vt100 had no effect. Where is the terminfo/termcap stuff? Could it be significant that I installed and am using rxvt shell? However, when I use the default cygwin terminal I see the same thing. -- Lit up like Levy's -- 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/
Re: ls -l | less shows escape chars
Luc Hermitte wrote, On 7/1/2004 9:14 AM: Hello, * On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:06:16AM -0400, geneSmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, my less man page is totally messed up. All other man pages seem to work. I have export PAGER='less -R' in my .bashrc HTH, Oops, I misspoke. It is my rxvt man page that is messed up. I see stuff like this when I do man rxvt I see stuff like this: .YODLTAGSTART. roffcmd .SH NAME .YODLTAGEND. rxvt (ouR XVT) - a VT102 emulator for the X window system.YODLTAGSTART. roffcmd .PP .YODLTAGEND. Setting PAGER does not seem to affect anything for me. Anyhow,when I do alias less=less -R My ls -l | less problem is solved. Thanks, -gene -- Lit up like Levy's -- 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/
Re: ls -l | less shows escape chars
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 -- 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/
Re: ls -l | less shows escape chars
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- 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/
RE: ls -l | less shows 'escape' chars
On Thu, July 1, 2004 6:08 pm, Hannu E K Nevalainen said: For man rxvt: Use google on YODLTAGSTART and you'll eventually find a sed script and how to use it. It was posted very recently to this list. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E --76-- ** on a mailing list; please keep replies on that particular list ** Specifically, the message you want is http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg00731.html Chris -- Your mode of life will be changed to EBCDIC. -- 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/
