@schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 7 months agoDebian spices up APT package manager with a dash of colorwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down13
arrow-up1235arrow-down1external-linkDebian spices up APT package manager with a dash of colorwww.theregister.com@schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 7 months agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-squareThe DoctorlinkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months agoIt’ll be fun filtering all the color codes out of build logs, that’s for sure. :/
minus-square@helaslo@lemm.eelinkfedilink5•7 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@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglish4•7 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.