Re: [Help-bash] How to preserve ansi color when piping (across platform)?

[Dennis Williamson]

GNU ls has the --color=always option. What are you really trying to do?

BTW, the version of script on my linux system needs -c to run a command:

script -c 'ls -G /'

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The following example shows how to preserver ansi color when piping.
> But script is not compatible between mac and linux. Is there a way
> that works across platform?
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7641392/bash-command-preserve-color-when-piping
>
> ls -G /
> ls -G / | cat
> script -q /dev/null ls -G / | tr -d '\r' | cat
>
> # write output of script command to a variable
> var="$(script -q /dev/null ls -G / | tr -d '\r' | cat)"
> echo "$var"
>
> --
> Regards,
> Peng
>
>


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