Option request: remove color tag in CLI output

[ehki]

Thank you for managing this useful backup tool.

When I run the backupy on windows command prompt, the color tags are not properly displayed. This is because the color tags such as [94m, [0m, and [95m are not supported in windows command prompt. Some users (like me) who want to save the output into the file will face the same problem even in the Mac and Linux. Therefore, I'd like to suggest adding an option named for example nocolor to remove color tags from stdout. My backupy version and a minimal example follow:

Version:

$ pip freeze | grep BackuPy
BackuPy==1.8.2

Sample command:

mkdir srcdir dstdir; touch srcdir/test01.txt; backupy --noprompt srcdir dstdir > out.log

The contents of out.log:

�[94mScanning files on source:
MYTESTDIR/srcdir�[0m
Scanning 0/1:                                                                 
Scanning 1/1: test01.txt                                                      
Scanning completed!                                                           
�[94mScanning files on destination:
MYTESTDIR/dstdir�[0m
Scanning 0/0:                                                                 
Scanning completed!                                                           
�[94mComparing directories...�[0m
�[95mSource Only (will be copied to dest): 1 (0 B)�[0m
�[94mFile: �[0mtest01.txt
�[94m�[0m            �[94m Size: �[0m0 B       �[94m Modified: �[0mSun Sep 20 21:03:18 2020
�[95mDestination Only (will be archived): 0 (0 B)�[0m
�[95mChanged Files (archive dest and copy source -> dest): 0 (0 B)�[0m
�[95mMoved Files (will move files on dest to match source): 0 (0 B)�[0m
�[95mStarting mirror�[0m
�[94mCopying 1 unique files from:
MYTESTDIR/srcdir
to:
MYTESTDIR/dstdir�[0m
Copying 0/1:                                                                  
Copying 1/1: test01.txt                                                       
File operations completed!                                                    
�[92mCompleted!�[0m

If possible, the <0x1b> Esc character is preferred to be removed.

Best regard,

[elesiuta]

No problem, and thanks for the feedback.

This sounds like a good suggestion, I'll make the changes now.

[elesiuta]

You can now use the --nocolour flag to achieve this, I'll probably be packaging a new release sometime this week or next, but the current revision is stable enough to use as is, and probably what will be packaged, nothing major has changed since 1.8.2.

[ehki]

I appreciate your quick response. Thank you so much.