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From: Robert Welz <welz@×××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:44:02
Message-Id: 84D6E778-4BDA-40F7-8840-DFAB9500D569@fixe-post.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? by felix@crowfix.com
1 Am 04.04.2007 um 06:17 schrieb felix@×××××××.com:
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3 > Why do --nocolor and --color=n not work (sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.3)?
4 >
5 > Why does the damned thing default to thinking I want blaring bizarre
6 > colors scattered all over my screen?
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9 I fully agree!
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11 But not only for portage (emerge) but for the whole system.
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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
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20 and no simpe way to switch color and other ANSI Sequences to off
21 exept by a regular expression.
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23 bash color can sometimes be evil ;)
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25 Robert
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29 ;););)
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