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

[Mike McCarty]

Joachim Backes [RHRK] wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> Joachim Backes [RHRK] wrote:
>>
>>> Using "ls -l|less " in FC5 gives a strange output on a fresh FC5 
>>> installation.
>>> Using "more" instead of "less" generates correct output. Did anybody 
>>> make similar experiences?
>>>
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>>
>>
>> What you see here is the escape sequences for setting colors
>> coming out of ls. You see, "less" is translating the escape
>> sequences into graphic characters (like 0x1B is becoming "ESC").
>>
>> 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".
>>
>> Mike
> 
> 
> Hi, Mike,
> 
> You are right: there is an alias: ls='ls --color'.
> Using both options in ls cmd (--color=never or --color=auto) helps.

Mine looks like this:

alias ls='ls --color=tty'

--color=auto should also work.

Anyway, I get color when it matters. You don't want it
when redirecting ls output to a file for later processing,
which is why I recommend *against* using

ls | less -r

This trick won't work, for example, with grep.

Mike
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