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| -rw-r--r-- | functions.sh | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/functions.sh b/functions.sh index 53cc189..be67536 100644 --- a/functions.sh +++ b/functions.sh @@ -404,13 +404,11 @@ RC_INDENTATION='' RC_DEFAULT_INDENT=2 RC_DOT_PATTERN='' -# Cache the CONSOLETYPE - this is important as backgrounded shells don't -# have a TTY. rc unsets it at the end of running so it shouldn't hang -# around -if [ -z "${CONSOLETYPE}" ] ; then - CONSOLETYPE="$(consoletype stdout 2>/dev/null )"; export CONSOLETYPE -fi -if [ "${CONSOLETYPE}" = "serial" ] ; then +# If either STDOUT or STDERR is not a tty, disable coloured output. A useful +# improvement for the future would be to have the individual logging functions +# act as they should. For example, ewarn prints to STDOUT whereas eerror prints +# to STDERR. For now, this is a reasonable compromise. +if [ ! -t 1 ] || [ ! -t 2 ]; then RC_NOCOLOR="yes" RC_ENDCOL="no" fi |