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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:59:42
Message-Id: 1554726.2oKSIrtCcD@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info
In Reply to: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? by Robert Welz
1 Robert Welz <welz@×××××××××.de> wrote:
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4 > Am 04.04.2007 um 06:17 schrieb felix@×××××××.com:
5 >
6 >> Why do --nocolor and --color=n not work (sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.3)?
7 >>
8 >> Why does the damned thing default to thinking I want blaring bizarre
9 >> colors scattered all over my screen?
10
11 Because it makes things easier to read.
12
13 > Today I fought with a shell script:
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15 > #! /bin/bash
16 > restart_result=`/etc/init.d/boinc restart
17 > /usr/bin/echo -e "$restart_result" | /root/bin/mail "check chroots"
18 > cron-Oberon
19 >
20 > and no simpe way to switch color and other ANSI Sequences to off
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22 Where did you get colors? Init scripts support a "--nocolor" switch.
23 Did this switch not work? Or did you get colors somewhere else?
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25 Alexander Skwar
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