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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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