'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?










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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
    Jan 20 at 2:33


















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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?










share|improve this question




















  • 1





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

    – wjandrea
    Jan 20 at 2:33
















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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?










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






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  • 1





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

    – wjandrea
    Jan 20 at 2:33
















  • 1





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

    – wjandrea
    Jan 20 at 2:33










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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
Jan 20 at 2:33







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

– wjandrea
Jan 20 at 2:33












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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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  • Some other ways to generate these control sequences are at unix.stackexchange.com/questions/491863 .

    – JdeBP
    Jan 20 at 10:31



















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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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    • Some other ways to generate these control sequences are at unix.stackexchange.com/questions/491863 .

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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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    • Some other ways to generate these control sequences are at unix.stackexchange.com/questions/491863 .

      – JdeBP
      Jan 20 at 10:31














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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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    • Some other ways to generate these control sequences are at unix.stackexchange.com/questions/491863 .

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    • Some other ways to generate these control sequences are at unix.stackexchange.com/questions/491863 .

      – JdeBP
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    Some other ways to generate these control sequences are at unix.stackexchange.com/questions/491863 .

    – JdeBP
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    Some other ways to generate these control sequences are at unix.stackexchange.com/questions/491863 .

    – JdeBP
    Jan 20 at 10:31













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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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        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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