Re: less and color
My issue with this is that while
--
ls --color=always | less -r
--
works nicely,
--
ls --color=always > file.txt
--
does not ( color codes ). I would like to include aliases to 'ls' and 'less' in
my login profile to have '--color' and '-r' respectively, but run into the
aforementioned problem.
I feel too conditioned to type 'ls --color=always | less' in place of
'ls | less', but maybe that's just me ;)
I suppose an "alias 'lsl=ls --color=always | less -r'" does the trick,
but I would rather not use non-standard directory listing commands. whatever.
Maybe some way to make 'less' pretend to be a tty ( !? ) would let 'ls --color=auto' work?
-rob
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 03:47:33PM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> -> 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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