Re: Pipe through LESS and MORE

[Bob Proulx]

David Hergert wrote:
> When I pipe the output of ls through less or more, the escape 
> characters show. Looks really bad.

This really falls into the category of the old joke, "The patient says
to the doctor, it really hurts when I do this ...  The doctor resonds
by saying, then don't do that and you will be fine."

> OS X 10.3
> Terminal using tcsh
> command : ls --color -f -L | less
> 
> Dont know if you know of this already.

Perhaps you wanted --color=auto instead?  Here is the online
documentation.

  info ls

    `--color [=WHEN]'
         Specify whether to use color for distinguishing file types.  WHEN
         may be omitted, or one of:

            * none - Do not use color at all.  This is the default.

            * auto - Only use color if standard output is a terminal.

            * always - Always use color.

         Specifying `--color' and no WHEN is equivalent to `--color=always'.
         Piping a colorized listing through a pager like `more' or `less'
         usually produces unreadable results.  However, using `more -f'
         does seem to work.

Hope that helps,
Bob