Re: [Groff] preserve ascii escape characters from input

[Mike Bianchi]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:25:31PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > > It's horrible when commands hard-code ANSI escape sequences, e.g.
> > > the otherwise good dstat(1).
> > 
> > I think it's pretty common these days, though.  I took a quick peek
> > and ls, grep, colordiff and git all hard-code ANSI.

My  dstat(1)  on Ubunutu 8.04 Linux puts out color escapes when the it
talks to a terminal, but is mono-chrome when invoked in a pipe line or into
a file.
        dstat  |  cat -
        dstat  >dstat.out

Similarly for  ls --color=auto .

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