bash command preserve color when piping [duplicate]
Here's a script snippet using the colorized output of ls as an example (on Mac OS X 10.6).
# no colored ls output if stdout is a pipe (and not a tty)ls -G /ls -G / | catscript -q /dev/null ls -G / | tr -d '\r' | cat# write output of script command to a variablevar="$(script -q /dev/null ls -G / | tr -d '\r' | cat)"echo "$var"