Strange output by the "ls -l|less" command pipe in FC5

Ambrogio fn050202 at flashnet.it
Fri Apr 7 06:30:41 UTC 2006


Il giorno ven, 07/04/2006 alle 00.28 -0500, Mike McCarty ha scritto:
> 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".
It's probably an alias.
I use ls -l --color=tty to forse the color to be used only on terminal
that recognize the escape sequence.

All other is treated as with no color.
So all the piped command are without escape sequence

Bye
 Ambrogio




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