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Eliatamby

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Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 80

Less with colour

Does anyone know how to use Less in the console with colour?  For example, piping ls through less loses all the directory/symlink colour codes etc.  I use view now for reading files, but for non-files view doesn't work.  If you cannot use less with console colour, are there any similar programs with this enabled? 

Thanks

elasticdog

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From: Washington, USA

Registered: 2005-05-02

Posts: 995

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Re: Less with colour

Not exactly an answer to your question, but to help differentiating the file types when using <code>ls</code> when you don't have color, you could do this:

ls -F | less

Which will insert symbols after the pathname to let you know what they are...

'/' = directory
'*' = executable
'@' = symbolic link
'=' = socket
'%' = whiteout
'|' = FIFO

phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: Less with colour

I don't know of any pages that work that way - but 'most' will colorize manpages.

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Eliatamby

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Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 80

Re: Less with colour

Thanks guys.

luca

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From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: Less with colour

Hi all,
this alias works for me:

alias ls='ls --color=always'