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firsttry
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:05 pm    Post subject: Using less with emerge Reply with quote

I had a question using less - basically, when I pipe less at the end of emerge -p followed by a package, all the output from emerge appears white. I was wondering is there a way to preserve the colours of emerge when piped into less?

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
less -R

should do the job ...

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tried to run
Code:
emerge -Dpv world |less -R
and the output was all white. Am I doing something wrong?
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Duplicate Threads, please see this topic: piping colors into less.
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