On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 5:44 PM Tobias Girstmair <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 04:44:58PM +0200, Knut Olav Břhmer wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I would like to enable output without color. > >I also have on the wish list to print passfile_dir with a leading slash. > > i'm assuming you need this for passing pass' output to another program. > > how about using something like the code below. 'test -t' checks whether > a file descriptor is a tty. this would keep interactive output the same, > while automatically making pipelines work. > > if [[ -t 1 ]] > then > color=always > else > color=never > fi > > # ... > > grepresults=$(... | grep --color="$color" ...) > > > if that's too verbose for you: > > color=never > test -t 1 && color=always
consider this pass grep .| less -R Sometimes want colored output even if the output is a pipe. But I would still consider your idea an improvement. Regards -- Knut Olav Bøhmer
