Re: [Sheflug] cpio people?

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet "Chris J" uttered these words of wisdom:
> 
> 'ello ... 
> 
> Is there anyone that uses cpio and knows enough about it to answer a quirk? 
> Google so far hasn't helped :)
> 

...scrub that; I've found the problem. Having an alias of "ls --color" for 
ls, thus causing every line output to have a chunk of escape sequences to 
set the colour for the line (even though there was no colour to set, and 
all it was doing was ESC[0m to swtich colour attributes off), causing cpio 
to look for files named "ESC[0mrrn.123456.1ESC[0m".

Insight provided by running hexdump over the ls output and me going "doh".

Alias since changed to ls --color=auto ... should mean I don't get tripped 
up it again.

Chris...

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