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Re: Colours in directory display
- To: Mathis Severin <Severin dot Mathis at swisslife dot ch>
- Subject: Re: Colours in directory display
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:43:18 +0200
- CC: "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <7C05304CF121D411BF4C0008C75D722B01363108@ns9850.swisslife.ch>
- Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
Mathis Severin wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Environment: cygwin 1.1.2 on NT 4.0
>
> When I make a directory listing using colours (ls --color -F), I get
> the expected display; the different entry types are in the colours as
> defined. Now I pipe the output to less and the colours disappear.
> Instead the corresponding escape sequence is written to the screen as
> pointed out in the following example:
>
> Output of 'ls --color -F':
> Temp/
> Output of 'ls --color -F | less':
> ESC[01;36mTempESC[0m/
>
> Is this the expected behaviour?
It is.
less doesn't show control codes (which are used for coloring the output)
unless it's explicitely forced to do so by giving the option `-r'.
Corinna
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