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