Preserving colours with less

openSauce · 03-10-2009, 05:17 AM

Is it possible for less to display coloured text, if that's what it's reading from stdin? I tried the -r and -R flags but they don't do it, at least not when reading the output of ls --color=auto.

Vrajgh · 03-10-2009, 05:41 AM

Try

Code:

ls --color=always | less -r

The problem you are having is with ls, not less. When using --color=auto, ls will not include color characters if the output is a pipe (like it is if it is piped to less.)

openSauce · 03-10-2009, 06:03 AM

Thanks, that works!