ls --color: special char in redirected output

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 06/23/2014 09:57 AM, Thomas Anderson wrote:
> Hi, after a recent upgrade (maybe the 20) I have some problem with
> special characters and ls --color
>
> For example:
>
> $ ls --color
> file.txt  temp/
>
> is ok
>
> but
>
> $ ls --color > ls.txt
>
> is not
>
> $ less ls.txt
>
> file.txt
> ls.txt
> ESC[0mESC[01;34mtempESC[0m/

Add the "-R" flag.


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Larry

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