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. > -- > Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NEXTRA, Slovakia; IRCNET admin of *.sk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ ; http://www.nextra.sk/ > Enter any 12-digit prime number to continue. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
