I'm curious to how it knows to change the output depending where the output is directed to. Like aren't both stdout from the point of view of bat?
stdout
bat
You can detect if the output is being redirected with POSIX functions isatty(3) and fstat(2)
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I'm curious to how it knows to change the output depending where the output is directed to. Like aren't both
stdoutfrom the point of view ofbat?You can detect if the output is being redirected with POSIX functions isatty(3) and fstat(2)