listing commands hang

[vodkadrinker]

Listing commands hang but work fine when piped through more.

This hangs:-
ls -ltr

This works:-
ls -ltr|more

This issue rings a bell but I cannot remember the solution.

 

[AvayaTier3]

put a backslash in front of ls -ltr to temporarily not use a possible alias for ls

\ls -ltr

also try
show if an alias is in your environment
alias ls
turn off alias until next login
unalias ls


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