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RE: ESC characters listed when I pipe through "less"



THAT"S IT!
I have it aliased to "ls --color". I didn't know that would cause it.

THANKS A MILLION! 

Thanks,
Frank Merenda | Senior Software Engineer
VetExchange   | http://www.VetExchange.com 
fmerenda@VetExchange.com

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." 

-- Roger Caras 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DJ Delorie [mailto:dj@delorie.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 8:19 AM
> To: FMerenda@vetexchange.com
> Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: ESC characters listed when I pipe through "less"
> 
> 
> 
> > I've got another one. When I pipe "LS" through "less", I 
> get a bunch of
> > "ESC" stuff in each line, in reversed text.
> 
> Your ls might be aliased to something like ls --color.  Try this:
> 
> 	/bin/ls | less
> 
> The "/bin/" part forces it to call the program directly, rather than
> aliasing it.
> 

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