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The alias 'lessh' doesn't work for me. Running bash on osx. Sigh.

SMBiggs
– SMBiggs

2014-10-17 17:09:40 +00:00
Commented Oct 17, 2014 at 17:09
That is an entirely different issue, most likely due to OSX using different shell and environment options, which may affect the interpretation of single and double quotes, differently. You can check and set these with shopt -p and set.

not2qubit
– not2qubit

2015-03-20 00:24:23 +00:00
Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 0:24
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This worked for me on OSX: first I installed with: brew install source-highlight, then I added an alias: alias lessh='LESSOPEN="| src-hilite-lesspipe.sh %s" less -R '

mhvelplund
– mhvelplund

2018-08-23 12:35:05 +00:00
Commented Aug 23, 2018 at 12:35
Remember source ~/.bashrc after specifying the correct alias, else you may end up with unix.stackexchange.com/questions/792028/…

sdbbs
– sdbbs

2025-03-06 08:00:34 +00:00
Commented Mar 6 at 8:00

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