1pipetty(1)                  General Commands Manual                 pipetty(1)
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NAME

6       pipetty - a tool to pipe from a pseudoterminal
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SYNOPSIS

9       pipetty command [ args... ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       pipetty  lets you make a program unaware that its output is being redi‐
13       rected.  This is usually useful for tools that detect  whether  they're
14       run  from  a  terminal and modify their output, typically colorizing it
15       only when run interactively.
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17       Usually, disabling colors when redirected is a good thing as most tools
18       can't  cope with ANSI codes.  Use pipetty when you do want colors, like
19       when you're going to feed that output to ansi2html or less -R.
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CAVEATS

22       Certain programs, such as bash, don't quite like their stdin to be on a
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SEE ALSO

26       ansi2html(1), ansi2txt(1), less(1).
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