Colours in directory display

Thu Jul 27 01:45:00 GMT 2000

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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