Add --no-color flag to disable ANSI color output#562
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Support disabling ANSI color output via --no-color flag or NO_COLOR environment variable (no-color.org standard). Colors are disabled at initialization time with zero runtime overhead. The flag does not leak to child processes, so tests that spawn bashunit subprocesses work correctly.
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📚 Description
Add support for disabling colored output in bashunit, following the NO_COLOR standard. This allows users to run tests in environments where ANSI escape codes are problematic, such as:
The feature can be enabled via:
--no-colorNO_COLOR=1(following the standard)Example usage
🔖 Changes
--no-colorcommand-line option to disable terminal colorsNO_COLORenvironment variable (https://no-color.org standard)bashunit::env::is_no_color_enabledhelper functionBASHUNIT_NO_COLORenvironment variable for configurationsrc/colors.shto conditionally set color variables to empty strings when no-color mode is enabled🖼️ Demo
✅ To-do list
CHANGELOG.mdto reflect the new feature or fix