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Re: Any FAQ's on colour ls?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John H Darrah)
Sun Nov 29 16:00:16 1998

Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 12:59:59 -0800 (PST)
From: John H Darrah <jhd@giddens.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <36614D03.D54C19D7@essex.ac.uk>
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On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Federico Strati wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> did you try to use something like:
> # ls -alF --color | less ?
> 
> I had to jump back to the 'more' command ;-((, less
> doesn't work well with colors...
> 
> if someone found a workaround, I'll be glad of hearing it :-)

Try:
	ls --color | less -r

The "-r" causes raw data to be displayed.


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