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