Re: [gentoo-user] debugging init scripts

[Iain Buchanan]

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 13:06 -0400, Thomas Tuttle wrote:

> And as for less thinking it's a binary file, that's because the Gentoo
> initscripts change the text color using escape codes, which are
> considered binary by less.  (Specifically, the escape character, ASCII
> 27, is probably considered binary.)

it's a funny workaround, but sometimes you have to type

cat file | less

to stop less being "intelligent".  Or you could disable it's input
preprocessor:

LESSOPEN="" less /usr/bin/echo-client-2

cya,
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