Hi, On Mon, May 29 2000 at 12:43 +0200, Jorn Verwey wrote:

Since a couple of months I am my own system administrator so I started to learn some bash. I like to write a script that will as a result give me a file with n of the largest files on my /home partition. I like to use the outcome of "ls -lR *", but when I write this to file I get the above-mentioned unwanted ^[[00m before and after file-names. I found that on somebody-elses RedHat (using SuSE 6.3 myself) this is not the case.

When ls is invoked with the --color=yes option it will use escape sequences like ^[[00m to produce coloured output. Either use --color=no to turn it off or --color=tty to only use coloured output when you're not redirecting output (IIRC --color=tty is standard on SuSE Linux).

PS Although I don't ask for such a script, if somebody has one I would still be interested, even if that would flatten my learning-curve.

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