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?
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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
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