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From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledome.gr>
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Subject: Re: colourization in ls command
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you can "export CLICOLOR_FORCE=1" and have the terminal
sequences redirected too. Something like that(I am using bourne
again shell):
export CLICOLOR_FORCE=1
ls -lG / | less -r

The -r option must be used, because less's default behavior is
not to display control characters.

Cheers, NikV

On Tuesday 12 October 2004 13:38, FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote:
> On 12 okt 2004, at 12:13, Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 12:12:14PM +0200, FreeBSD questions mailing
> >
> > list wrote:
> >> hmm, of course...
> >> is there a way to preserve it and still have it display page after
> >> page?
> >
> > I find this often works with "less" instead.
>
> I tried less but that seems to loose colours too
>
> > (please don't top post)
>
> huh?
>
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