On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:25:31PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > > It's horrible when commands hard-code ANSI escape sequences, e.g.
> > > the otherwise good dstat(1).
> >
> > I think it's pretty common these days, though. I took a quick peek
> > and ls, grep, colordiff and git all hard-code ANSI.
My dstat(1) on Ubunutu 8.04 Linux puts out color escapes when the it
talks to a terminal, but is mono-chrome when invoked in a pipe line or into
a file.
dstat | cat -
dstat >dstat.out
Similarly for ls --color=auto .
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