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Re: Color bash prompt messes up command-line editing: ls --color does too
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Youngman)
Tue Oct 22 05:00:27 1996
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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Date: 22 Oct 1996 08:58:19 GMT
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In article <54gf5u$7qu@halon.vggas.com>, sjmudd@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org says...
>
>I get a similar problem with ls, using the alias ls='ls --color', but when
>piping the output. Eg. 'ls /usr/doc' works ok, but 'ls /usr/doc |less'
>comes out like the following: (ESC is in inverse video.)
Use
alias ls="ls --color=auto"
instead.
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