Different Colors For Control Characters And Pattern Matches In less

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How to get less to show control characters in a different color from the search pattern matches?
How to get less to show binary characters in a different color from the search pattern matches?
How to get less to show control characters and pattern matches in different colors?
How to get less to show binary characters and pattern matches in different colors?
Get less to show control characters and pattern matches in a different color.
Get less to show binary characters and pattern matches in a different color.

Get less to Show Control and Binary Characters in Different Colors From Search Matches:

Try each of the following to see which one you like best:

LESSBINFMT="*k<%02X>" less FILE
LESSBINFMT="*d<%02X>" less FILE
LESSBINFMT="*u<%02X>" less FILE

Once you decide which one you like, put one of these in your .profile or .bashrc file.

export LESSBINFMT="*k<%02X>"
export LESSBINFMT="*d<%02X>"
export LESSBINFMT="*u<%02X>"

The *k means put control and binary characters in blinking text, but on some systems the text doesn’t blink, instead it appears in a different color!
The *d means put control and binary characters in bold text, but on some systems the text doesn’t appear in bold, instead it appears in a different color!
The *u means put control and binary characters in underlined text, but on some systems the text doesn’t appear in underlined, instead it appears in a different color!
The <%02X> means put binary characters as an uppercase 2 digit binary value within angled brackets.

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