> bz2=01;31m"wwwoffle-1.3.tgz"
To me it looks like color-ls misbehaving and sending it's escape
sequences to a tty that can't handle them.
Try adding "--color=never" to the LS command line and see if
the problem goes away. I don't know how the defaults are
set, maybe from an environment variable.
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