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?
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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?
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that looks suspiciously like ANSI (colour) escape codes.
is your
Do you have ls aliased to ls --color?
Try: /bin/ls | less
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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?
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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?
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ESC[01;32mNTUSER.DATESC[0m
that looks suspiciously like
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?
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When I do ls -l | less a typical line looks like this with ESC in
reverse video and other weird
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
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,
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or switch the alias to ls --color=auto, which will color for a simple ls
but not when redirecting stdout.
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From: Joe
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Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows escape chars
Do you have ls aliased to ls --color?
Try
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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