Disabling ANSI color output

Re:Disabling ANSI color output by jcoffland on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @02:33AM (#16322844)

If you don't want see color output, asking every program to follow a new standard is silly when you could easily handle it in one application. The terminal.

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Re:Disabling ANSI color output by Kenji on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @02:36AM (#16322855)

You could also pipe the output through a program that filters ANSI colour codes. That'd be an extremely simple utility and fix for the problem.

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Re:Disabling ANSI color output by majewsky on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:59AM (#16323137)

Extremely simple, and also wrong. Whether stdout is a pipe or a tty makes differences to programs, sometimes huge differences. For example, when connected to a tty, `git log` will use a pager when the output length exceeds the terminal height. With piping, it cannot do that.

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