we've long used the dircolors database as a proxy to see whether the active terminal supports color. basically something like: eval "$(dircolors -b)" if [[ -n ${LS_COLORS} ]] ; then # env supports colors fi
but having to go through the eval & LS_COLORS testing is kind of annoying. how do people feel about extending the interface so that we can merely test the database ? something like: dircolors --check-term[=TERM] [FILE] then we can do: if dircolors --check-term ; then # env supports colors fi -mike
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