NAME¶
pipetty - a tool to pipe from a pseudoterminal
SYNOPSIS¶
pipetty command [ args... ]
DESCRIPTION¶
pipetty lets you make a program unaware that its output is being
redirected. This is usually useful for tools that detect whether they're run
from a terminal and modify their output, typically colorizing it only when run
interactively.
Usually, disabling colors when redirected is a good thing as most
tools can't cope with ANSI codes. Use pipetty when you do want
colors, like when you're going to feed that output to ansi2html or
less -R.
CAVEATS¶
Certain programs, such as bash, don't quite like their stdin to be on a
different terminal than stdout.
SEE ALSO¶
ansi2html, ansi2txt, less.