getting a terminal to STOP showing colors

[Bryan Sant]

So I'm too lazy to look through the cat code, but I'm guessing that
cat is explicitly striping ANSI codes (??).  Or is the shell (or
something else) doing something magical?  You don't get any color/ANSI
codes if you do "ls > foo" either.  I don't fully understand why.

-Bryan

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Hans Fugal <hans at fugal.net> wrote:
> Oh, and maybe try piping through cat
>
> ls --color=auto | cat