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The garbage you see are color escape codes, for colorizing the output in your terminal. This is often set up by making `ls` an alias to `ls --color=something`, in either /etc/profile or ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile or one of the other similar profile files.
Here's an example from my machine, where my `ls` command is aliased:
Code:
sasha@reactor: alias
alias Eterm='/home/sasha/.wrapper-scripts/eterm-wrapper.sh'
alias d='dir'
alias dir='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=vertical'
alias eterm='/home/sasha/.wrapper-scripts/eterm-wrapper.sh'
alias ls='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS'
alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh'
alias mv='mv -bv'
alias nano='nano -m'
alias rxvt='/home/sasha/.wrapper-scripts/rxvt-wrapper.sh'
alias spkg='/usr/bin/src2pkg -Q -A -C -VV -W -R -a=x86_64 -p=/usr -f="-O2 -fPIC -Wall -mtune=native -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"'
alias spkh='/usr/bin/src2pkg --help'
alias v='vdir'
alias vdir='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=long'
alias xterm='/home/sasha/.wrapper-scripts/xterm-wrapper.sh'
sasha@reactor: echo $LS_OPTIONS
-F -b -T 0 --color=auto
sasha@reactor:
No, it's not a bug. It's a feature! It's an option of `ls` that's being put to use, probably set up by you (perhaps unknowingly) or your OS by default, or by your sysadmin if that's not you. Your OS wants you to have colored ls.
Read the `ls` man page, and the `bash` man page to read about aliases (or whatever shell you use, if not bash).
Comment out the entry in the .profile or /etc/profile or whatever file it is, where the alias is set, if you prefer not to have it turned on.
No, it's not a bug. It's a feature! It's an option of `ls` that's being put to use, probably set up by you (perhaps unknowingly) or your OS by default, or by your sysadmin if that's not you. Your OS wants you to have colored ls.
Read the `ls` man page, and the `bash` man page to read about aliases (or whatever shell you use, if not bash).
Comment out the entry in the .profile or /etc/profile or whatever file it is, where the alias is set, if you prefer not to have it turned on.
You're absolutely right. I set this manually in my .bashrc.user
Quote:
# set colors for ls
alias ls='ls --color'
LS_COLORS='di=34:fi=0:ln=35i=5:so=5:bd=5:cd=5r=31:mi=0:ex=32'
export LS_COLORS
I change the ls alias to "alias ls='ls --color-tty'" and the problem is solved.
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It's an option of `ls` that's being put to use, probably set up by you (perhaps unknowingly) or your OS by default, or by your sysadmin if that's not you. Your OS wants you to have colored ls.
i=5:so=5:bd=5:cd=5
r=31:mi=0:ex=32'
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