Show Colors in less
This page answers questions like these:
How to get less to show colors? How to get less to show colors that are piped into it? How to get less to show colors from ls ? How to get less to show colors from grep ? How to get less to preserve colors?
Related Links: Different Colors for Control Characters and Pattern Matches in less Make less Keep Reading a Growing File Ungetcc Overflow Error Coming From less Show Colors in grep Show ls File Sizes with Commas CPUs at Top of top Get less to Show Colors:
less -R OR LESS="-R" less Examples: ls --color | less -R ls --color | LESS="-R" less export LESS="-R"; ls --color | less grep --color PATTERN FILE | less -R grep --color PATTERN FILE | LESS="-R" less export LESS="-R"; grep --color PATTERN FILE | less
The -R option to less tells it to show the colors formed by ANSI color sequences piped into it, or read in via files.
The most common use of this is to see the colors output by commands like ls , grep , and egrep .
The LESS environment variable allows you to specify options that apply to all less invocations.
Related Links: Different Colors for Control Characters and Pattern Matches in less Make less Keep Reading a Growing File Ungetcc Overflow Error Coming From less Show Colors in grep Show ls File Sizes with Commas CPUs at Top of top Home > Linux / Unix > Show Colors in less Tags: less colors, less colours, less with colors, less with colours, less show color, less show colours, show colors in less, show colours in less, less command, linux, unix, solaris, bsd, aix
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