Joachim Backes [RHRK] wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Joachim Backes [RHRK] wrote:
Using "ls -l|less " in FC5 gives a strange output on a fresh FC5
installation.
Using "more" instead of "less" generates correct output. Did anybody
make similar experiences?
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What you see here is the escape sequences for setting colors
coming out of ls. You see, "less" is translating the escape
sequences into graphic characters (like 0x1B is becoming "ESC").
Try this...
$ ls -l --color=never | less
If that looks ok (it should) try
$ ls -l --color=auto | less
That *should* also work. You may have an alias for "ls".
Mike
Hi, Mike,
You are right: there is an alias: ls='ls --color'.
Using both options in ls cmd (--color=never or --color=auto) helps.
Mine looks like this:
alias ls='ls --color=tty'
--color=auto should also work.
Anyway, I get color when it matters. You don't want it
when redirecting ls output to a file for later processing,
which is why I recommend *against* using
ls | less -r
This trick won't work, for example, with grep.
Mike
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