Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Karl Haines <karl@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:11:36
Message-Id: 466C59AB.5050503@karlhaines.com
In Reply to: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? by Robert Welz
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4 Color is pretty ;) lol. It makes things interesting! I agree however
5 that there might need to be some way to turn it off easily.
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7 Robert Welz wrote:
8 >
9 > Am 04.04.2007 um 06:17 schrieb felix@×××××××.com:
10 >
11 >> Why do --nocolor and --color=n not work (sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.3)?
12 >>
13 >> Why does the damned thing default to thinking I want blaring bizarre
14 >> colors scattered all over my screen?
15 >
16 >
17 > I fully agree!
18 >
19 > But not only for portage (emerge) but for the whole system.
20 >
21 > Today I fought with a shell script:
22 >
23 > #! /bin/bash
24 > restart_result=`/etc/init.d/boinc restart
25 > /usr/bin/echo -e "$restart_result" | /root/bin/mail "check chroots"
26 > cron-Oberon
27 >
28 > and no simpe way to switch color and other ANSI Sequences to off exept
29 > by a regular expression.
30 >
31 > bash color can sometimes be evil ;)
32 >
33 > Robert
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36 >
37 > ;););)
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