Stdoutisatty Save

Make programs think their stdout is a tty / terminal.

Build & Install

::

$ mkdir -p build && cd build $ cmake .. $ make $ sudo make install $ sudo ldconfig

Usage

Just prefix your command with stdoutisatty::

$ stdoutisatty ls --color=auto | less

Use a two-character environment variable ISATTY to specify whether you want stdout and/or stderr to be treated as a tty:

.. list-table:: :header-rows: 1

• • ISATTY value
  • which isatty
• • yy
  • stdout, stderr
• • y.
  • stdout
• • .y
  • stderr

. indicates any characer other than (lower-cased) y. Only the first two characters are examined (currently).

Links

• A blog article (Chinese) <https://blog.lilydjwg.me/2013/7/9/pretend-that-stdout-is-a-tty.39922.html>_