On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:07:02 +0200
Tony Stohne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Mick said the following on 2007-04-05 19:07:
> | ...
> | Hmm, neither less not cat give me color output. Passing --color=y
> to either
> | tells me things like:
> | ==============================
> | There is no color=y option ("less --help" for help)
> | ==============================
> |
> | I also tried --color but it's all still shown in black & white. How
> do you
> | pipe a file and get it to show in color? Am I missing something in
> | my .bashrc or elsewhere?
>
> To make less interpret color escape sequences, you need the -R option.
> export LESS=-R in your shell startup script and you-ll have it as
> default. Generally, you don't want to use less -r, which allows
> arbitrary control characters through to affect the terminal (which
> tend to create major garbage).
>
> Color is added via ANSI escape sequences, which don't work in all
> displays/terminals/consoles, but as an example: grep is smart enough
> to detect this and won't use color (even when specified) if you're
> sending the output via a pipeline. Otherwise, if you piped the
> output, eg to less, the ANSI escape sequences would send garbage to
> the screen.
>
> ~ If, on the other hand, that's really what you want to do (without
> the garbage), there's a workaround:
>
> use the --color=always to force it through and call less with the -R
> flag (which prints ALL RAW control characters). That way, the color
> codes will escape correctly and you'll page through screens of text
> with your matched patterns in full color:
>
> grep --color=always "regexp" the_file_you_want_to_wade_through | less
> -R
>
> That should do the trick :)
>
> //Regards Tony
>
> PS. Have a nice Easter everyone!
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Hey tony, maybe this is beyond your control, or maybe you don't care,
and if not i respect your autonomy in such matters, but your reply
block punctuation character '|' defeats the very helpful colorization
of my and many other browsers that use the usual '>' character to
identify reply text. It makes your letters nearly unreadable.
respects, - dan
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