Bat outputs weird characters about bat HOT 6 CLOSED

Your version of less appears to come from BusyBox, which might not be compatible with ANSI escape sequences like color codes or UTF-8 characters.

This was the issue for me. I solved it by replacing the BusyBox less with @jftuga's version

To avoid conflicts from having two versions of less, I deleted C:\w64devkit\bin\less.exe, downloaded the x64 zip from the link above, and pasted less.exe in C:\w64devkit\bin

Yeah, you were right. I uninstalled w64devkit and installed the right version of less. Now it works fine again! Thanks to yall so much!

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Does it work if you use --paging=never?

Your version of less appears to come from BusyBox, which might not be compatible with ANSI escape sequences like color codes or UTF-8 characters.

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@eth-p I will try. Btw bat used to work completely fine before. It just started doing this out of nowhere.

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Your version of less appears to come from BusyBox, which might not be compatible with ANSI escape sequences like color codes or UTF-8 characters.

This was the issue for me. I solved it by replacing the BusyBox less with @jftuga's version

To avoid conflicts from having two versions of less, I deleted C:\w64devkit\bin\less.exe, downloaded the x64 zip from the link above, and pasted less.exe in C:\w64devkit\bin

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Btw bat used to work completely fine before. It just started doing this out of nowhere.

Removing less also solves the problem for me. What I think happened is you probably installed bat first, so it worked because less wasn't there, then you installed w64devkit, which brought along a broken version of less, which broke bat

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Does it work if you use --paging=never?

Your version of less appears to come from BusyBox, which might not be compatible with ANSI escape sequences like color codes or UTF-8 characters.

yes it does!!

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