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I get colored tree using tree -C but when I pipe it to less I get results like this:

tree public/ -C | less

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How can I have colors in less in this case?

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You want the -R switch to less.

From the less man page:

-R or --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS Like -r, but only ANSI "color" escape sequences are output in raw" form. Unlike -r, the screen appearance is maintained correctly in most cases. ANSI "color" escape sequences are sequences of the form:

            ESC [ ... m

So you need

tree -C public/ | less -R
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Passing -r to less will tell it to pass through control characters and escape sequences unmolested.

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