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On Wednesday 04 April 2007 07:22, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 04 April 2007 08:19:47 Graham Murray wrote: |
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> > Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk> writes: |
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> > > First of all I believe most people (including myself) very much prefer |
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> > > colors over no colors (no I cannot qualify with any numbers..). That |
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> > > does not, however, mean that the pipe detection and --color switch etc. |
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> > > shouldn't be honoured. It should (and it does here). |
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> > |
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> > Though, as less can display colours, it might be good if the pipe |
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> > detection did *not* disable colour output but require the user to use |
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> > the --no-color switch to disable them. |
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> Not really. Just use --color=y if you want colors through a pipe. |
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Hmm, neither less not cat give me color output. Passing --color=y to either |
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tells me things like: |
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There is no color=y option ("less --help" for help) |
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I also tried --color but it's all still shown in black & white. How do you |
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pipe a file and get it to show in color? Am I missing something in |
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my .bashrc or elsewhere? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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