netdev - Re: [iproute PATCH v2 4/4] lib: Enable colored output only for TTYs

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Date:   Wed, 15 Aug 2018 18:39:44 +0200
From:   Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Till Maas <opensource@...l.name>
Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH v2 4/4] lib: Enable colored output only for TTYs

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:24:31AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/15/18 10:21 AM, Phil Sutter wrote:
> > Add an additional prerequisite to check_enable_color() to make sure
> > stdout actually points to an open TTY device. Otherwise calls like
> > 
> > | ip -color a s >/tmp/foo
> > 
> > will print color escape sequences into that file. Allow to override this
> > check by specifying '-color' flag more than once.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
> > ---
> > Changes since v1:
> > - Allow to override isatty() check by specifying '-color' flag more than
> >   once.
> 
> That adds overhead to my workflow where I almost always have to pipe the
> output of ip to a pager.

alias ip='ip -color -color'

Another alternative may be to introduce -autocolor flag. Establishing
the same syntax as used by 'ls' is not as trivial due to the simple
commandline parsing used in 'ip'.

Cheers, Phil