Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes:

> Ok, but it would be nice not to have wildly differing output
> on the same system, depending on what devices are attached.
> This "feature" is only to aid human parsing so should be
> restricted to ttys IMHO.

Keying that on isatty is not a good way, since that would change the
output depending on whether you pipe it through a pager, for example.

Andreas.

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