Re: pipin'

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@luci.org>]

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Charles J Menzes wrote:

> why is it that when I attempt:
> 	ls /home/mydir |email me@
> 
> i get a slightly messed up output from the redirect?
> it ends up looking like this:
> 
> ^[[0m^[[01;36maqua^[[0m
> ^[[01;34mbin^[[0m
> ^[[0mcisco.xls^[[0m
> ^[[0mdead.letter^[[0m
> ^[[01;34mmail^[[0m
> ^[[0mmbox^[[0m
> ^[[0mmims.uue^[[0m
> ^[[0mmims2.doc^[[0m
> ^[[0mph.list^[[0m
> ^[[0mphone.list^[[0m
> ^[[01;34mpublic_html^[[0m
> ^[[0mrecmendez.doc^[[0m
> ^[[01;34mresume^[[0m
> ^[[01;34mscriptlogs^[[0m
> 
> 
> rather than just giving me the list of dirs and docs like i would prefer?

You're using color ls, and it's screwed up.  Try:

  ls --color=none /my/dir | email-script

Color ls is supposed to figure out when to use color and when not to, but
it's obviously guessing wrong in this case.



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