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On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 04:10:30PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 18:27 -0400, John Brooks wrote:
> > The boolean --color argument did not offer the ability to force colourized
> > output even if stdout is not a terminal.
> 
> OK, but why is colorizing output not to terminals desired?

* You may post-process the output somehow.  grep, sed, some highlighter...
* The output may go to less -R, ansi2html, etc.

I've made a tool that does what you want, "pipetty" (Debian package
colorized-logs, in stretch and jessie-backports), but that's a dirty hack. 
Lying about isatty() works for programs that check STDOUT but it's notorious
to instead look at STDIN, which can't be fooled in a reliable way.  Thus,
it's better to standardize on --color={always,auto,never}.


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