Colour output piped to less
- by mmacaulay
Operating system: Mac OS 10.6.2
I'd like to be able to see colour output when piping certain commands through less.
Two examples:
I've got ls aliased to ls --color=auto, so I'd like to be able to see colour when I do this:
ls -l | less
I've also got the color extension turned on in Mercurial, so I'd like to see colour output from:
hg diff | less
and
hg st | less
After some googling, it seems like some versions of less support either -r or -R to make this work, but no dice for me. I can't see anything in the man page that looks like what I need. (-r or -R SEEM to be the right options, but again, they don't seem to work)