Re: [ILUG] less and ls colours

From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Wed 06 Oct 1999 - 20:02:40 IST

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less displays color codes for me (or is that colour?). i have the following
less related environment variables:

LESS=eMsqwX
LESSCHARSET=latin1

kevin

Matthew Sammon spoke thusly:
>
>quick question:
>
>Is there some reason why less does not display colours when it receives
>piped ls output? More does, but less displays a load of color codes,
>while less -r displays only in "black and white"?
>
>I'm using the following:
>
>less version 332
>ls (GNU fileutils) 3.16
>more 5.19?
>
>TIA
>
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