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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 05:50:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Colours in directory display
To: Mathis Severin <Severin DOT Mathis AT swisslife DOT ch>,
        "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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--- Mathis Severin <Severin DOT Mathis AT swisslife DOT 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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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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