On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 04:10:30PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 18:27 -0400, John Brooks wrote: > > The boolean --color argument did not offer the ability to force colourized > > output even if stdout is not a terminal. > > OK, but why is colorizing output not to terminals desired?
* You may post-process the output somehow. grep, sed, some highlighter... * The output may go to less -R, ansi2html, etc. I've made a tool that does what you want, "pipetty" (Debian package colorized-logs, in stretch and jessie-backports), but that's a dirty hack. Lying about isatty() works for programs that check STDOUT but it's notorious to instead look at STDIN, which can't be fooled in a reliable way. Thus, it's better to standardize on --color={always,auto,never}. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ A tit a day keeps the vet away. ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ (Rejoice as my small-animal-murder-machine got unbroken after ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ nearly two years of no catch!)