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in thread test output in colour ?

Yup, it's built-in. If we think the output isn't going to a terminal or if you don't have the correct modules installed, we disable the color output. You can also do this manually with the --nocolor switch.

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Ovid

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Re^3: test output in colour ?
by diotalevi (Canon) on Feb 14, 2008 at 05:16 UTC

    The terminal detection is really annoying. I often pipe colorful output to `less -r'. If tools stopped istty() then my tools would work better. Same goes for ack.

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      With ack you can override it, I haven't tried for for prove yet...

      alias ack='ack --color --group'
alias plainack='ack --nocolor --nogroup'

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        Ah yes. I'd forgotten about ~/.ackrc. Silly.

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