pass grep --color=never

[Knut Olav Bøhmer]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 6:55 PM Knut Olav Bøhmer <bohmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 5:44 PM Tobias Girstmair <t-passwd at girst.at> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 04:44:58PM +0200, Knut Olav Břhmer wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I would like to enable output without color.
> > >I also have on the wish list to print passfile_dir with a leading slash.
> >
> > i'm assuming you need this for passing pass' output to another program.
> >
> > how about using something like the code below. 'test -t' checks whether
> > a file descriptor is a tty. this would keep interactive output the same,
> > while automatically making pipelines work.
> >
> > if [[ -t 1 ]]
> > then
> >         color=always
> > else
> >         color=never
> > fi
> >
> > # ...
> >
> > grepresults=$(... | grep --color="$color" ...)
> >
> >
> > if that's too verbose for you:
> >
> > color=never
> > test -t 1 && color=always
>
> consider this
>
> pass grep .| less -R
>
> Sometimes want colored output even if the output is a pipe. But I
> would still consider your idea an improvement.

test -t should be used if --color=auto

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