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From: "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: question regarding ls w/ colors and capturing to file
Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2012 2:22 am
On 07/31/2012 02:15 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> Fedora List:
>
> I can run "ls -FR" on a directory and get a lovely listing with lots of color coded information to let me know what is what. I have hit a directory that is big enough that scrolling though the output isn't efficient. I would like to capture the output of "ls -FR" into a file that preserves the color coding (I don't want to read each file as I wish to visually scan to see if something isn't right and color is a great way to see it).
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> My attempts with "more" have stripped color. So has "less". Does anyone have an idea how to capture the output of "ls -FR" that keeps the color coding?
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> This is a low priority item ... just something that would be nice to be able to do
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul
script -c "ls -FR --color" outfile
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