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Geminias

Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:20 pm


little problem'o with the forking execv'o

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unix api naturally:

say you fork your terminal application and execute "ls -l" in the child, why won't the color and the formatting etc... appear in the output?  I've got it just printing the plaintext output.  

Is there a way to do it through perhaps piping?


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OneOffDriveByPoster

Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:19 pm


Re: little problem'o with the forking execv'o

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Can you try adding --color=auto ?  I think you normally get colour because of aliases in the shell that set that option.