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# Less With Style
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I was using `less` the other day to look at a log file. The log file was
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filled with ANSI color escape sequences which made it pretty painful to
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read. I was stuck looking at a white, unparsed log file instead of a
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colorful, stylish one.
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The `-R` flag fixes this. It tells `less` to display the ANSI color escape
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sequences as colors rather than the caret notation.
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The tradeoff is that `less` has _less_ control over the overall display of
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the screen. This may result in some buggy display behavior, but not
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necessarily.
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[source](http://superuser.com/questions/117841/get-colors-in-less-command)
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