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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > -- people always turn away, from the eyes of a stranger... Afraid to know what lies behind the stare....... --QueensRyche - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
