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

To: FMerenda at vetexchange dot com
Subject: Re: ESC characters listed when I pipe through "less"
From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:18:44 -0400
CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <82E0F488CB97D31188CD009027B117C149B212@pdc-ehy-atl.ehatchery.net>


> 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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