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less emulate a TTY to preserve piped color output
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Mar 15, 20265258 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Problem
When you pipe something through , the program usually discards color codes because it's not outputting to a TTY. So you have to add to the options for it to work. What's worse is that sometimes things don't even support that option, so there's actually no way to force color output to a pipe. Is the…
Error Output
ls -l --color=always | less grep -R asdf --color=always | less
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Fix for: less emulate a TTY to preserve piped color output
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It's not that needs to change. The output of your other programs is being redirected to a pipe. Those programs detect that their output is not being sent to a tty and they disable their coloring. You're stuck with having to do something special with…
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