Re^3: test output in colour ?

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The terminal detection is really annoying. I often pipe colorful output to `less -r'. If tools stopped istty() then my tools would work better. Same goes for ack.

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Re^4: test output in colour ?
by jasonk (Parson) on Feb 18, 2008 at 00:43 UTC

With ack you can override it, I haven't tried for for prove yet...

alias ack='ack --color --group'
alias plainack='ack --nocolor --nogroup'
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Re^5: test output in colour ?

by diotalevi (Canon) on Feb 18, 2008 at 07:14 UTC

Ah yes. I'd forgotten about ~/.ackrc. Silly.

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