ls -l | less shows "escape" chars

[Joe]

Do you have ls aliased to "ls --color"?

Try:  /bin/ls | less

"geneSmith" <gene.smith@sea.siemens.com> wrote in message
news:cc112h$9na$1@sea.gmane.org...
> 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
>
> -- 
> Lit up like Levy's
>
>




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