Re: tlug: ls colorful

[John Seebach <jseebach@example.com>]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:26:32AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 
> `ls --color=yes | less -r' should work. 

Ah, thanks. This entire thread has inspired me to re-read several manpages,
which has also led to me finding the command line option that solves my
problem with one of the more annoying features of less (the fact that, by
default, you actually have to press "q" to hit less, instead of being
returned to the command line when you're finished viewing something. This
drove me nuts when I was just trying to get a directory listing, and was
probably why I used more instead in the first place). I'm not sure why this
annoyed me, but it did.  Probably because I didn't know about less when I
first discovered UNIX and my own behavior is remarkably similar to one of
pavlov's dogs.

'ls --color=yes | less -Er' takes me back to the good old days. Ahhhhh.

I guess the moral of this story is: "you can learn stuff by reading the
documentation." 

Fancy that.

john

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