How do I determine if a terminal is color-capable?
A friend pointed me towards tput(1), and I cooked up this solution: #!/bin/sh # ack-wrapper – use tput to try and detect whether the terminal is # color-capable, and call ack-grep accordingly. OPTION=’–nocolor’ COLORS=$(tput colors 2> /dev/null) if [ $? = 0 ] && [ $COLORS -gt 2 ]; then OPTION=” fi exec ack-grep $OPTION … Read more