less -R; you learn something new everyday....

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:26:54 +0000
tech

I'm sometimes suprised of the things I don't know. For example, after using Linux as my primary machine I only just found out that less -R will make less correctly markup ANSI escape sequences, so when I pipe ls --color or pylint through it I get something readable, rather than raw escape codes.

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