How to disable colors? #753

raxod502 · 2017-06-19T21:30:48Z

Description

I would like to pipe the output of neofetch into another command, but cannot figure out how to disable the ASCII escape codes that litter the output. I did not see any options in man neofetch that appeared to be relevant.

Neofetch version

3.1.0

Config file

None

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ladislavskufca · 2017-06-25T13:13:48Z

You mean "color bar"?

Open your configuration file in .config and use # to make comment and hide info cols. I think that this is the bar you want to hide.

dylanaraps · 2017-06-25T13:17:34Z

No, he means the escape codes that format the text.

Neofetch currently doesn't have an option to do this and I'm not sure if I'll add this feature since Neofetch wasn't intended to be piped into other commands. If you'd like to use some info from Neofetch I'd instead suggest looking into the source code to find the file or system command that displays the information you'd like to pipe.

raxod502 · 2017-06-25T16:02:54Z

The most frequent thing that I use Neofetch for is filling in the "System Information" section in an issue report. So I run neofetch and then copy/paste the output. But I would much prefer to just do neofetch | pbcopy!

ghost · 2017-06-25T16:08:40Z

Maybe this would suffice for your usecase? `neofetch|sed 's/\x1B\[[0-9;]*m//g'` Using this, we would not need to modify neofetch.

raxod502 · 2017-06-25T16:20:39Z

Well, that would technically work, but it seems a little bit of an excessively hacky workaround to me. I could certainly put it in an alias, though. Thanks!

raxod502 · 2017-06-25T16:26:18Z

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Now, it looks like this:

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So some of the escape codes are gone, but not all of them.

ghost · 2017-06-25T16:38:48Z

Those sequences are not generated by neofetch:

color() {
    case "$1" in
        [0-6]) printf "%b" "${reset}\033[3${1}m" ;;
        7 | "fg") printf "%b" "\033[37m${reset}" ;;
        *) printf "%b" "\033[38;5;${1}m" ;;
    esac
}

Do you have a wrapper in there that uses ncurses? Looks alot like curses output to me.

Updated sed line would be like neofetch|sed 's/\x1B\[[0-9;\?]*[a-zA-Z]//g'

dylanaraps · 2017-06-25T16:39:54Z

They are generated by neofetch.

…

On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 at 2:38 am, Lain ***@***.***> wrote: Those sequences are not generated by neofetch <https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/blob/master/neofetch#L3561>: color() { case "$1" in [0-6]) printf "%b" "${reset}\033[3${1}m" ;; 7 | "fg") printf "%b" "\033[37m${reset}" ;; *) printf "%b" "\033[38;5;${1}m" ;; esac } Do you have a wrapper in there that uses ncurses? Looks alot like curses output to me. Updated sed line would be like neofetch|sed 's/\x1B\[[0-9;\?]*[a-zA-Z]//g' — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#753 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AGfAa1WCMyLvP_VmXjK10X8lgrpmub17ks5sHo0bgaJpZM4N-0O-> .

ghost · 2017-06-25T16:50:32Z

Ah i see.

The updated sed line should work anyways.

raxod502 · 2017-06-25T16:52:38Z

Judging by the output, it looks like things are no longer aligned, presumably since the alignment is done using escape codes. I can see how it would be difficult to add streaming support to Neofetch—but as a workaround, is there a way of running a command in a pseudo-tty and then copying the contents of the tty? That would really be what I want.

(But the sed command does work in stripping out the escape codes; thanks!)

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               :++++. 
              /+++/. 
      .:-::- .+/:-``.::- 
   .:/++++++/::::/++++++/:` 
 .:///////////////////////:` 
 ////////////////////////` 
-+++++++++++++++++++++++` 
/++++++++++++++++++++++/ 
/sssssssssssssssssssssss. 
:ssssssssssssssssssssssss- 
 osssssssssssssssssssssssso/` 
 `syyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy+` 
  `ossssssssssssssssssssss/ 
    :ooooooooooooooooooo+. 
     `:+oo+/:-..-:/+o+/- 
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---------------------------- 
OS: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 15G1510 x86_64 
Model: MacBookPro11,3 
Kernel: 15.6.0 
Uptime: 16 days, 15 hours, 12 minutes 
Packages: 340 
Shell: zsh 5.3.1 
Resolution: 3008x1692, 1440x900 
DE: Aqua 
WM: Quartz Compositor 
WM Theme: Blue 
Terminal: iTerm2 
Terminal Font: InputMono-Medium 14 
CPU: Intel i7-4980HQ (8) @ 2.80GHz 
GPU: Intel Iris Pro, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 
Memory: 5970MiB / 16384MiB

konimex · 2017-08-03T17:38:44Z

You can now disable colors in stdout mode.

Run neofetch with --stdout flag enabled and you're good to go. The ASCII/Images will be disabled.

raxod502 · 2017-08-03T17:42:28Z

Nice! But there are still some escape codes at the bottom:

% neofetch --stdout | pbcopy

gives me

rrosborough@[redacted]
-----------------------------
OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.5 16F73 x86_64
Model: MacBookPro11,4
Kernel: 16.6.0
Uptime: 36 days, 1 hour, 35 mins
Packages: 225
Shell: zsh 5.3.1
Resolution: 1920x1200
DE: Aqua
WM: Kwm
Terminal: iTerm2
Terminal Font: InputMono-Medium 12
CPU: Intel i7-4980HQ (8) @ 2.80GHz
GPU: Intel Iris Pro
Memory: 4804MiB / 16384MiB

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ghost · 2017-08-03T17:59:58Z

Try this: neofetch --stdout --color_blocks off

raxod502 · 2017-08-03T18:01:47Z

It works great, thanks.

rrosborough@[redacted]
-----------------------------
OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.5 16F73 x86_64
Model: MacBookPro11,4
Kernel: 16.6.0
Uptime: 36 days, 1 hour, 55 mins
Packages: 226
Shell: zsh 5.3.1
Resolution: 1920x1200
DE: Aqua
WM: Kwm
Terminal: iTerm2
Terminal Font: InputMono-Medium 12
CPU: Intel i7-4980HQ (8) @ 2.80GHz
GPU: Intel Iris Pro
Memory: 5019MiB / 16384MiB

I'm slightly bothered by the extra blank lines at the bottom, but I can live with it. They're easy to trim off with a process substitution, anyway.

ghost · 2017-08-03T18:10:16Z

@konimex I'm not sure, but shouldn't color_blocks"=off" be added to the stdout() function?

konimex · 2017-08-03T18:35:40Z

I totally forgot about that. My bad.

The color blocks have been disabled. I'm still not sure about whether we should disable line_break or not for stdout mode, but it's the cause of the extra blank lines.

dylanaraps · 2017-08-04T01:07:46Z

Yes, I think we should disable the line breaks.

Edit: Done

dylanaraps added the Enhancement label Jun 20, 2017

konimex mentioned this issue Aug 3, 2017

Misc: Reimplement stdout mode #799

Merged

konimex closed this as completed Aug 3, 2017

p-e-w mentioned this issue Oct 27, 2022

Filter out the escape sequences p-e-w/shin#3

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