Re: less and color
-> I have got the same problem with 'more' and 'less' too.
->
-> How did you configure 'ls' for displaying colors when piping to 'more' ?
-> I have setup the ls command to use the display color option using an
-> alias. It works fine. Colors are also displayed nicely when piping
-> ls stdout to the more command. I want to use less instead of
-> more. However, when piping ls stdout to the less command, less displays
-> the directory listing in b/w and with control characters (escape seq with
-> hex numbers?) around the filenames instead of just using the correct
-> colors.
that's problem of lls not less try
ls --color=always | less -r
but the problem is in that case less doesn't know how long the line is and
doesn't correctly diaplay it.
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