pass grep --color=never

[Knut Olav Bøhmer]

Patch which respects "--color=auto"

On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 8:36 AM Knut Olav Bøhmer <bohmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
> Knut Olav Bøhmer
> 41 000 108



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Knut Olav Bøhmer
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