Colours in terminal which do not support it about steam-lancache-prefill HOT 7 CLOSED

Could you let me know the value of the $TERM variable is when ran inside the script?

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To be sure I've added this code to the script

echo "Term Parent: " $TERM
echo "Term Child: " $(docker exec $docker_id /bin/bash -c "echo $TERM")

both cases output

Term Parent: linux
Term Child: linux

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Just noticed that there is already a --no-ansi option for exactly that use-case, but doesn't get applied for all logging

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I'll take a look at the other text that isn't affected by --no-ansi and see whats going on with them.

While --no-ansi will mostly fix this issue, I do think that I need to take a deeper look into how to do this automatically, as this is not that uncommon of a question. I'm wondering if the thing to do would be to detect that the terminal is non-interactive and use that to determine whether or not to display ansi codes.

I have a test build that has some debug output that I would like to see the results of. Would you mind manually installing it and running your cron job as usual, and then sending over the output? The build can be downloaded from this build job :
https://github.com/tpill90/steam-lancache-prefill/actions/runs/7332865847

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I just want to hide under a rock somewhere :( I missed to put the arguments for SteamPrefill within the brackets passing it to the docker container :( I am so sorry to waste your time :(

With the latest release build and the flags correctly passed to the container

Thank you so much for your help and time, I really appreciate it! And again, I am so sorry :(

If you are still curious, that was the output of your build

Also, after a lot of debugging and testing on my side, I don't think anymore that the terminal has trouble with the colours, but the positioning of the cursor. If I disabled the colours hard-coded, it would still print the weird characters.

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I'm reopening this for the time being. I think I'm going to add a faq entry for this and want to track that I get that added

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Added an additional FAQ section : https://github.com/tpill90/steam-lancache-prefill#my-logs-have-weird-characters-that-make-it-hard-to-read--is-there-any-way-to-remove-them

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