netdev - RE: [iproute PATCH 4/4] lib: Enable colored output only for TTYs

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Message-ID: <007d7ef0e49243ec82fafe3efa1d9ba3@AcuMS.aculab.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:34:31 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Stephen Hemminger' <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
CC:     Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Till Maas <opensource@...l.name>
Subject: RE: [iproute PATCH 4/4] lib: Enable colored output only for TTYs

From: Stephen Hemminger
> Sent: 15 August 2018 16:04
...
> > This also disables color sequence when the output is piped to a pager
> > such as less which with the -R argument can handle it just fine.
> >
> > ie., the user needs to remove the color arg when that output is not wanted.
> 
> If you are going to change the color enabling, why not make it compatible
> with what ls does?

Indeed - otherwise it is very hard to debug the colour escape sequences.

	David

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