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That's a pretty niche case, you can force it by either allocating a pseudo tty or using LD_PRELOAD with an isatty() shim that returns true. I only ever had to
by doix 3y ago
That's a pretty niche case, you can force it by either allocating a pseudo tty or using LD_PRELOAD with an isatty() shim that returns true.
I only ever had to do it once (using LD_PRELOAD) because there was an insane vendor binary blob that would return "SUCCESS" in green/red depending on if it passed or failed. When isatty() returned false, it was impossible to tell if it passed or failed, but the software was pure garbage.
- kps 3y ago> That's a pretty niche case I don't entirely agree. When I do want colour (generally because I've taken the time to configure the program suitably for it), then I usually still want the colour when I pipe its output through a pager. `diff` is the canonical example. Edit: Another comment¹ points out pipetty² as a workaround, so I learned something useful today. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102160 ² https://github.com/kilobyte/colorized-logs https://github.com/kilobyte/colorized-logs