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emillon
on Feb 26, 2012
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Useful use of cat(1)
Most generally, it will trick any command into thinking that it's not writing to a tty ; so piping into cat will often remove colors.
burgerbrain
on Feb 26, 2012
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Of course if you
want
colours, you can often force programs to use them anyway. For example, I use the alias:
alias new='ls -lthr --color=always | tail'
Normally ls will not use colours when writing to a pipe (not a tty).
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