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Old 06-13-2008
'less' command response is garbled
Helo ,
I m using RHEL 4.

If I run 'ls -laF | more', response is properly display.

but when I run If I run 'ls -laF | less', the response is garbled

what to do to remove this?

Regards,
Amit
# 2  
Old 06-13-2008
Without an example of how it's garbled, it's very hard to offer any advice. This is not the normal operation of less
# 3  
Old 06-16-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by era
Without an example of how it's garbled, it's very hard to offer any advice. This is not the normal operation of less
helo below is my response of less command.
It gives me garbled as shown below.


$ ls -laF|less
<D7><DC><D3><C3><C1><BF> 160
drwxr-xr-x 40 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 03:12 ./
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 ../
drwxrwsr-x 2 admin pds_agent 4096 6<D4><C2> 17 19:11 account/
drwxrwxr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 2007-11-25 archive/
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 03:12 bin/
drwxrwxr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 callsel/
drwxrwxr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 03:12 class/
drwxrwxr-x 6 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 03:12 config/
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 2007-11-25 customs/
drwxrwsr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 2007-11-25 dnc/
drwxrwxr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 03:12 etc/
drwxrwxr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 03:12 help/
drwxrwxr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 histrpt/
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 2007-11-25 imon/
drwxrwxrwt 2 admin pds_system 4096 2007-11-25 ipc/
drwxrwxr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:11 ivr/
drwxrwxr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 job/
drwxrwxr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:11 ktbs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 03:12 language/
drwxrwxr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 listdist/
drwxrwxrwt 7 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 lists/
drwxrwxr-x 5 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:13 man/
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 03:12 menus/
drwxr-xr-x 5 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 newconfig/
drwxrwxr-x 6 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 openssl/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 4096 2007-11-25 patch/
drwxrwxr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 reportgen/
drwxrwsrwt 2 admin pds_system 4096 2007-11-25 reports/
drwxrwxr-x 4 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 sample/
drwxrwxr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 03:12 scripts/
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 03:12 scrnbld/
drwxr-xr-x 15 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 03:12 shell/
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 2007-11-25 sp_bin/
drwxrwxr-x 5 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 staging/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 03:12 svcpk1/
drwxr-xr-x 4 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 switch/
drwxrwxr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 tape/
drwxr-xr-x 16 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 tools/
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin pds_system 4096 2007-11-25 ucb/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 admin pds_system 4096 6<D4><C2> 15 02:12 xfer/


Regards,
Amit
# 4  
Old 06-16-2008
This looks vaguely like color codes, or possibly some artefact of internationalization. Does your ls have color support? Is your terminal set to UTF-8 display? Is your locale set up properly? Is the LESSCHARSET environment variable defined, and does its setting correspond with your terminal settings?
# 5  
Old 06-16-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by era
This looks vaguely like color codes, or possibly some artefact of internationalization. Does your ls have color support? Is your terminal set to UTF-8 display? Is your locale set up properly? Is the LESSCHARSET environment variable defined, and does its setting correspond with your terminal settings?
helo,

But when i give command
ls -laF|more
then it works fine.
is this bug of less command or what?

amit
 
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