Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of colorwww.theregister.comexternal-link schizoidman ( @schizoidman@lemmy.ml ) Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 11 months ago message-square20fedilinkarrow-up1162
arrow-up1162external-linkDebian spices up APT package manager with a dash of colorwww.theregister.com schizoidman ( @schizoidman@lemmy.ml ) Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 11 months ago message-square20fedilink
minus-square The Doctor ( @drwho@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish4•11 months agoIt’ll be fun filtering all the color codes out of build logs, that’s for sure. :/
minus-square helaslo ( @helaslo@lemm.ee ) linkfedilink5•11 months agoApt even warns you to not use it for anything scripting related, apt-get has a stable interface for exactly that
minus-square ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish4•11 months 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.