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Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color
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If you're anything like me and find coloured text is often unreadable in a terminal window, here's the list of how to address the issue:
http://no-color.org/
Agreed. I haven't read the article yet, but my first thought was "how am I going to turn that off"
It'll be fun filtering all the color codes out of build logs, that's for sure. :/
Apt even warns you to not use it for anything scripting related, apt-get has a stable interface for exactly that