No way to disable colour output of crontab -l

[jwakely]

As noted at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1838180

there should be at least some way to disable all colorization for the tool itself. at a system level, redhat has "COLOR none" in /etc/DIR_COLORS for ls which stops "--color=auto" alias from activating. there is also a no-color initiative at https://no-color.org/

You can do crontab -l | cat but I agree with the bug reporter that a way to disable the colours through config would be preferable. Even just a --no-color option would be an improvement.

[t8m]

Adding an option would be an overkill. But supporting NO_COLOR environment variable is IMO worth it. I'll do that.

[jwakely]

Thanks! Yes, I agree a new option that is only useful for the -l option doesn't make much sense.

[t8m]

Fixed in 765a745

[jwakely]

I've created a pull request to add cronie to the list of software honouring NO_COLOR at no-color.org

jcs/no_color#113