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bash watch command with colors preserved

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Mar 15, 202638058 views
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Problem

From : Non-printing characters are stripped from program output. Use "cat -v" as part of the command pipeline if you want to see them. So how do I use if I want to see the colored output from:

Error Output

watch ls -al --color

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Fix for: bash watch command with colors preserved

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The right command is It isn't documented in the man page or the --help screen. I has to use strings to find it.

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