Colours in directory display

Thu Jul 27 05:50:00 GMT 2000

--- Mathis Severin <Severin.Mathis@swisslife.ch> 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?
>
Yes, this is the expected behaviour. Doing `less --help' is your friend. You
would find that adding the -r switch will allow your colors to display.
Cheers,
=====
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