# how to get color on command line with less

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**Created:** [November 5, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-color-on-command-line-with-less/17173 "2018-11-05T15:29:37Z")\
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I’d like to get color terminal output even when piping through more/less. I had expected

julia --color=yes myprogram.jl | less -R

to produce color output, but it doesn’t. What are the alternatives? Thanks!

(Julia 0.7)