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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
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