News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Disabling ANSI color output. Parent comment

Re:Disabling ANSI color output by daveFNbuck on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @02:07AM (#16322762)
If you're redirecting the output to a file or piping it into another program, the color just turns into annoying markup. Many programs handle this automatically but not all do.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Disabling ANSI color output by __david__ on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:08AM (#16322929)
In my opinion, any program outputing ANSI sequences without checking isatty() has a serious bug.
[ Parent | on HN ]