On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:50:12PM EST, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: [..]
"more" shows the colors with no problem. In general, I use: > > - less > - when there is a long listing which I want to be able to scroll back and > forth, or to search with a / command > - not when there are interspersed ANSI-like escape sequences as in "ls > --color". [OT] You could try "less -R". Works for me, although a quick look at the man page suggests this might not work under all circumstances: ".. tries to keep track .." In any case I have aliased "b" as in "browse" to "less -R -M" and never had a problem. Thanks, cga