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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Stephen Hemminger' <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Till Maas <opensource@till.name>
Subject: RE: [iproute PATCH 4/4] lib: Enable colored output only for TTYs
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:34:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <007d7ef0e49243ec82fafe3efa1d9ba3@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180815080406.7110bd76@xeon-e3>

From: Stephen Hemminger
> Sent: 15 August 2018 16:04
...
> > This also disables color sequence when the output is piped to a pager
> > such as less which with the -R argument can handle it just fine.
> >
> > ie., the user needs to remove the color arg when that output is not wanted.
> 
> If you are going to change the color enabling, why not make it compatible
> with what ls does?

Indeed - otherwise it is very hard to debug the colour escape sequences.

	David

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      reply	other threads:[~2018-08-15 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-15  9:06 [iproute PATCH 0/4] A bunch of fixes regarding colored output Phil Sutter
2018-08-15  9:06 ` [iproute PATCH 1/4] tc: Fix typo in check for " Phil Sutter
2018-08-15  9:06 ` [iproute PATCH 2/4] bridge: Fix " Phil Sutter
2018-08-15  9:06 ` [iproute PATCH 3/4] Merge common code for conditionally " Phil Sutter
2018-08-15  9:06 ` [iproute PATCH 4/4] lib: Enable colored output only for TTYs Phil Sutter
2018-08-15 14:40   ` David Ahern
2018-08-15 15:04     ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-08-15 15:34       ` David Laight [this message]

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