Different Colors For Control Characters And Pattern Matches In less

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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>"



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