little problem'o with the forking execv'o

[Geminias]

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?

[OneOffDriveByPoster]

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