schizoidman ( schizoidman@lemmy.ml ) to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoDebian spices up APT package manager with a dash of colorwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up1162
arrow-up1162external-linkDebian spices up APT package manager with a dash of colorwww.theregister.comschizoidman ( schizoidman@lemmy.ml ) to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square18linkfedilink
minus-squareThe Doctor ( drwho@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoIt’ll be fun filtering all the color codes out of build logs, that’s for sure. :/
minus-squarehelaslo ( helaslo@lemm.ee ) linkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoApt even warns you to not use it for anything scripting related, apt-get has a stable interface for exactly that
minus-squareReversalHatchery ( ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoSo far almost any Linux software I have used and supports colored output automatically turns off coloring if it detects that stdout is not a terminal.
It’ll be fun filtering all the color codes out of build logs, that’s for sure. :/
Apt even warns you to not use it for anything scripting related, apt-get has a stable interface for exactly that
So far almost any Linux software I have used and supports colored output automatically turns off coloring if it detects that stdout is not a terminal.