How to resolve the ls > file.txt dumps garbage characters in Linux?
When i do ls in my terminal it works fine, but when I do ls > file.txt it dumps garbage values along the name.
Resolution
Your ls command is aliased to something like ls --color=auto (or ‘yes’) which produces the ANSI coloring codes you see.
There are a few possible solutions:
- You could unalias it with
unalias lswhich would remove the colors from yourlsoutput. - Specify that you don’t want color as
ls --color=noin your command.
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