Add functionality to disable coloured output

[madAndroid]

The coloured output is really helpful, but in some situations it makes it difficult to integrate the tool in scripts.. for example we run this during instance startup in AWS:

sensu-cli client history $(facter fqdn) | grep last_status | \
  sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[m|K]//g" | awk '{print $2}' | egrep '(1|2|3)'

That nasty sed is there to parse the coloured output ASCII codes, otherwise we can't properly grep for last_status codes

Is there a simpler way to do this within the shell output?
Alternatively, would you consider adding an option which allows --nocolour ?

[agent462]

There is a config option currently that you can use to disable, pretty_colors. I can also look at making it a cli flag for people that want it on normally and turn it off on demand.

[madAndroid]

There is a config option currently that you can use to disable, pretty_colors. I can also look at making it a cli flag for people that want it on normally and turn it off on demand.

Thanks, having a cli flag would be really useful :) I'll investigate the config option, although at the moment, we only set the API endpoint there, nothing else