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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:43:18 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@cygnus.com>
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To: Mathis Severin <Severin.Mathis@swisslife.ch>
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Subject: Re: Colours in directory display
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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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