Weird problem with ADB Shell

[Guest Simon O]

I'm trying to use ADB shell whilst booted into Android. Running an LS gives results like this:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

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C:\Users\Flibblesan>adb shell

# ls

ls

←[1;34mcache←[0m				 ←[1;32minit←[0m				  ←[1;34msbin←[0m

←[1;34mconfig←[0m				←[1;32minit.goldfish.rc←[0m	  ←[1;34msdcard←[0m

←[1;36md←[0m					 ←[1;32minit.qcom.rc←[0m		  ←[1;34msqlite_stmt_journals←[0m

←[1;34mdata←[0m				  ←[1;32minit.qcom.sh←[0m		  ←[1;34msys←[0m

←[0;0mdefault.prop←[0m		  ←[1;32minit.rc←[0m			   ←[1;34msystem←[0m

←[1;34mdev←[0m				   ←[1;34mproc←[0m

←[1;36metc←[0m				   ←[1;34mroot←[0m

#[/code]


Any idea why?

[Guest Josh04]

I've always had that with 2.1 roms on windows. I think it's something to do with Microsoft's crappy terminal emulator, maybe.

[Guest Jan M]

yeah...that's how windows displays colors...and I didn't find a way to turn it off with busybox v.1.8.1

[Guest agitate]

I had that problem too. Installed the latest version of the SDK (r06) and the terminal output is now normal again.

(First post here. So, hello, and thanks for all the great info.)

[Guest Speckles]

There's always:

ls --color=never

Since what you see are escape codes for coloring.

[Guest Dave Blencowe]

Just a wild guess as I'm running Linux but couldn't you use a shell alternative like Windows Power Shell as this supports colour formatting?

[Guest Simon O]

Powershell didnt solve the problem. Anyway I found that puttycyg with Cygwin does, so I'm using that.