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<h3>2 cent tip: Interpreting color escape sequence</h3>
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Mulyadi Santosa [mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com]
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<b>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:02:14 +0700</b>
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Suppose you have recorded your console session with "script" command. 
And then you want to display it via simple "less" command. But wait, you 
see: (note: by default ls use coloring scheme via command aliasing, so 
if you don't have it, simply use ls --color)
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ESC]0;mulyadi@rumah:/tmp^GESC[?1034h[mulyadi@rumah tmp]$ ls
ESC[00mESC[00;34mgconfd-doelESC[00m ESC[00;34mvirtual-mulyadi.Bx4b1XESC
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How do you make these "strange" characters to appear as color? Use less 
-r &lt;your script file&gt; and you'll see colors as they originally appear.
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