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funcDropShadow 12 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Command line interface guidelines (2021)

You can use ls --color=always | less -R to render the colors in less.

saghm 12 months ago | [–]

Huh, not sure how I've never found that option before. Thanks for the lesson, I'll need to rtfm a bit more closely!

samstave 12 months ago | [–]

Thats fn cool

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