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Re: Colours in directory display
- To: Mathis Severin <Severin dot Mathis at swisslife dot ch>, "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Colours in directory display
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 05:50:18 -0700 (PDT)
--- Mathis Severin <Severin.Mathis@swisslife.ch> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Environment: cygwin 1.1.2 on NT 4.0
>
> When I make a directory listing using colours (ls --color -F), I get
> the expected display; the different entry types are in the colours as
> defined. Now I pipe the output to less and the colours disappear.
> Instead the corresponding escape sequence is written to the screen as
> pointed out in the following example:
>
> Output of 'ls --color -F':
> Temp/
> Output of 'ls --color -F | less':
> ESC[01;36mTempESC[0m/
>
> Is this the expected behaviour?
>
Yes, this is the expected behaviour. Doing `less --help' is your friend. You
would find that adding the -r switch will allow your colors to display.
Cheers,
=====
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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