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No way to disable --icons on pipe #691

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torma616 opened this issue Jun 24, 2020 · 4 comments · May be fixed by #908
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No way to disable --icons on pipe #691

torma616 opened this issue Jun 24, 2020 · 4 comments · May be fixed by #908

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@torma616
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exa --icons sends icons across the pipe. If there was an --icons=WHEN option, icons could be disabled when being piped similarly to --color
@torma616 torma616 changed the title No way to disable --icons on piping No way to disable --icons on pipe Jun 24, 2020
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pagerc commented Aug 12, 2020

It should at least default to using the same value as --color

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nicdumz commented May 18, 2021

--icons=WHEN would be ideal indeed.

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ariasuni commented Jul 6, 2021

In #905, another user suggests disabling --classify/-F options as well. I’m not sure about it though, but I guess it can be considered as a cosmetic option that makes no sense in a redirected output too.

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  • ls on macOS has classifiers on by default. However, these are not displayed when piped.
  • ls on Ubuntu (ubuntu:latest Docker image) has classifiers off by default.

In both cases, having ls -F show them both in stdout and piped output. I suppose it comes down to compatibility of keeping these or usability and hiding these.

I think the WHEN approach for both --icons and --classify would be superb!

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Don’t show icons when piped (also add --icons={always,auto,never}) ariasuni/exa
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