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Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color

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On 5/1/17, 8:29 AM, in article ac802.bu94@rooftop.invalid, "owl"
<owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:

> Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 6:56:28 PM UTC-6, Marek Novotny wrote:
>>> On 2017-05-01, Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 4:42:23 PM UTC-6, Marek Novotny wrote:
>>>>> Hi group,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Posted a stupid Linux tip... If you like piping long directories to
>>>>> less but want to see the ls --color=auto still working in the less
>>>>> command then this is for you.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ls piped to less with color
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://youtu.be/-_AHF3-329k
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Nice to know, thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> By the way... can I dump this?
>>> 
>>> Yeah, heck yeah. Dump away.
>> 
>> Done.
>> (but I still think you should do something like that)
>> 
>> For grins, I tried "ls -al  -color | less -R" on my Mac, which I thought
>> should work, 
>> but it didn't.
> 
> This works on FreeBSD:
> $ CLICOLOR_FORCE=1 ls -alG |less -R
> Might work on Mack.
> 
> 

Tested: works fine here. Thank you!


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video posts - ls piped to less with color Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-30 17:42 -0500
  Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-30 19:05 -0400
  Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 17:28 -0700
    Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-30 19:56 -0500
      Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-05-01 07:40 -0700
        Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-05-01 09:59 -0500
          Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-01 11:58 -0700
          Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-05-02 07:49 -0400
            Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-05-02 07:43 -0500
              Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-05-02 12:13 -0400
              Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-02 09:59 -0700
            Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-02 10:12 -0700
        Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2017-05-01 17:26 +0200
          Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-01 11:58 -0700
        Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-05-01 15:29 +0000
          Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-05-01 08:45 -0700
          Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-05-01 11:10 -0500
          Re: video posts - ls piped to less with color Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-01 10:13 -0700

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