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From: geneSmith <gene DOT smith AT sea DOT siemens DOT com>
Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:27:53 -0400
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Joe wrote, On 7/1/2004 11:09 AM:

> Either don't use color or change it to --color=auto.
> 
> I alias ls to "ls -x -color=auto".
> 
> Then "ls | less" gives you columns without escape codes.
> 
> If you want a single column, use "ls -1 | less".  The -1 overrides the -x in
> the alias and gives one column.  Or leave out the -x if you never want
> columns when piping to less.

Thanks for the info. However when I put
alias less="less -R"
in my ~/.bash_profile it seem to work and and still get colors when I do 
ls -l | less.

-gene


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