'less -R' not working












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I got this in a file:



33[31mException log


And when I do:



less -R demo


I get no colors:



enter image description here



What am I doing wrong?






colors less







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  • Note that an actual escape character (U+1B) would be represented as ESC in inverse colors, if you ran less demo, without -R.

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I got this in a file:



33[31mException log


And when I do:



less -R demo


I get no colors:



enter image description here



What am I doing wrong?






colors less







share|improve this question

























  • Note that an actual escape character (U+1B) would be represented as ESC in inverse colors, if you ran less demo, without -R.

    – wjandrea
    2 hours ago
















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I got this in a file:



33[31mException log


And when I do:



less -R demo


I get no colors:



enter image description here



What am I doing wrong?






colors less







share|improve this question
















I got this in a file:



33[31mException log


And when I do:



less -R demo


I get no colors:



enter image description here



What am I doing wrong?






colors less




colors less






share|improve this question















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  • Note that an actual escape character (U+1B) would be represented as ESC in inverse colors, if you ran less demo, without -R.

    – wjandrea
    2 hours ago





















  • Note that an actual escape character (U+1B) would be represented as ESC in inverse colors, if you ran less demo, without -R.

    – wjandrea
    2 hours ago



















Note that an actual escape character (U+1B) would be represented as ESC in inverse colors, if you ran less demo, without -R.

– wjandrea
2 hours ago







Note that an actual escape character (U+1B) would be represented as ESC in inverse colors, if you ran less demo, without -R.

– wjandrea
2 hours ago












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You need to put the actual escape code in the file. One way to do this would be:



echo -e "33[31mException log" > file.txt


Then less -R file.txt should be able to interpret the color code.






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    These characters are not a colour code sequence, but they are the sequence to tell some tools/programming-languages to create the desired character sequence.



    e.g.



    echo -e "33[31mException log"





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      You need to put the actual escape code in the file. One way to do this would be:



      echo -e "33[31mException log" > file.txt


      Then less -R file.txt should be able to interpret the color code.






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        You need to put the actual escape code in the file. One way to do this would be:



        echo -e "33[31mException log" > file.txt


        Then less -R file.txt should be able to interpret the color code.






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          You need to put the actual escape code in the file. One way to do this would be:



          echo -e "33[31mException log" > file.txt


          Then less -R file.txt should be able to interpret the color code.






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          You need to put the actual escape code in the file. One way to do this would be:



          echo -e "33[31mException log" > file.txt


          Then less -R file.txt should be able to interpret the color code.







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              These characters are not a colour code sequence, but they are the sequence to tell some tools/programming-languages to create the desired character sequence.



              e.g.



              echo -e "33[31mException log"





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                These characters are not a colour code sequence, but they are the sequence to tell some tools/programming-languages to create the desired character sequence.



                e.g.



                echo -e "33[31mException log"





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                  e.g.



                  echo -e "33[31mException log"





                  share|improve this answer













                  These characters are not a colour code sequence, but they are the sequence to tell some tools/programming-languages to create the desired character sequence.



                  e.g.



                  echo -e "33[31mException log"






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