question regarding ls w/ colors and capturing to file

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 7/31/2012 6:24 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
> Paul,
>   You may want to look at the search capabilities built into less.
> (man less). Unless you need to modify the file, less should let you
> do what you want.
>   Also, you can use ls -FR --color | less -R to get rid of the output
> to the screen buffer.
>
> Have fun.
> Mikkel

Mikkel:

Yeah, I think I have underestimated what less can do ... I'll check the 
man pages.

I want to believe that all I want the editor for is navigation, but I 
know that occasionally I edit out items I don't care about so I have a 
file left of "things to work on".

I pretty happy with the two options I got, it makes initial scan for 
"problems" alot easier.

Thanks,
Paul