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From: joy merwin monteiro <joy.merwin@gmail.com>
To: ACario <acario@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Getting ls results in text file - Charset issue
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:35:30 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b0d6e0d04122120055263ef80@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cqa80n$6q6$1@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

don't ask me why, but these characters look more
like ANSI escape sequences (everything prefixed with 
an ESC (^[ ) ) .looks like your console is giving you the
raw data it receives instead of just the text......

regards,
Joy.M.Monteiro


On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:25:42 +0100, ACario <acario@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running following command in a console:
> 
> ls > out.csv
> 
> Then I open the file "out.cvs" in vi and here is what I get, whith all
> these strange characters (below is a copy/paste from vi screen):
> 
> ^[[00m^[[01;34mcxoffice^[[00m/
> ^[[01;34mDesktop^[[00m/
> ^[[01;34mGNUstep^[[00m/
> ^[[01;34mkde^[[00m/
> ^[[01;34mLogs^[[00m/
> ^[[01;34mNntp^[[00m/
> ^[[00mNOTEBOOK.DBF^[[00m
> ^[[00mout.csv^[[00m
> ^[[01;34mSw^[[00m/
> ^[[01;34mSwWork^[[00m/
> ^[[01;34mtmp^[[00m/
> ^[[01;34mWorkspace^[[00m/
> 
> My config: Mandrakelinux 10.1, bash
> My question: how can I get the results of my "ls" command in a plain
> text file with ASCII or ISO-8891 character set instead of all this
> unreadable characters?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ACario
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-22  4:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-21 22:25 Getting ls results in text file - Charset issue ACario
2004-12-22  3:55 ` qwms-avib
2004-12-22 11:07   ` ACario
2004-12-22  4:05 ` joy merwin monteiro [this message]
2004-12-22  4:20   ` qwms-avib

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