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 Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:55 am Post subject: [obsolete] portage-utils: Colored output to files |
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[This thread is obsolete; second edit in Apr 2023]
[First edit of Apr 2023]
As of app-portage/portage-utils-0.94.3, (Apr 2023)
$ q
does print in color, but if you do
$ q > file
it will be colorless. For a workaround, see the next message by Ionen.
Don't submit a wish item to bugzilla and annoy Gentoo developers. If you can, please write a patch to accept an option:
--color=always/auto/never
i.e. as "ls (1)" does.
Thanks.
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As of app-portage/portage-utils-0.90,
$ q
does print in color, but if you do
$ q > file
it will be colorless. I wrote a quick patch that makes outputs always in color, unless you pass --nocolor.
Get it here. Save it as /etc/portage/patches/app-portage/portage-utils/notty-color.patch, re-emerge, and you're done.
Don't send it to bugzilla and annoy Gentoo developers. Once you enhance it to
--color=always/auto/never
i.e. as "ls (1)" does, I guess it'll be ok.
Regards.
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Ionen
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| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 1:13 am Post subject: |
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If want to avoid patches in situations like that, can always force it with the script command (from util-linux), like: | Code: | | script -aefq /dev/null -c "quse -Dvp firefox" | grep www-client > stillcolored |
Can also replace /dev/null by the actual file and it'll work more like bin/tee. Given it makes the command a bit nasty, makes more sense with an alias/wrapper.
Not that I don't agree portage-utils needs an option to control this rather than be auto-detection-only. |
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teika
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| Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:43 am Post subject: |
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Thanks. That workaround really helps.
(You're right. As you feared, my patch has to be updated now, and will need to be forever! ;-) |
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Goverp
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| Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2023 10:07 am Post subject: |
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RTFM?
| Code: | | quse --color firefox > q.lst |
produces coloured output for me.
I'm on portage-utils-0.95
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| Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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@Goverp, Ionen
Sorry & thanks for replying to my obsolete update (oxymoron?) m(_ _)m |
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