Less and ANSI colour escape sequences

Siddhesh Poyarekar spoyarek at redhat.com
Tue Oct 27 08:02:59 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 00:58 -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> I was wondering why `less' in Fedora 11 can't display ANSI colour escape 
> sequences even with the `-r' or `-R' options. I use grep as `grep 
> --color=always'. When I pipe the output to `less -R' or `less -r' all 
> the colours are lost. This works on my Xubuntu machine at the 
> University. Is this a bug with the Fedora package?
> 

Both work for me on F11:

$ grep --color=always foo somefile | less -R
$ grep --color=always foo somefile | less -r

Works even if I alias grep to 'grep --color=always'

Are you doing something different?


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