When I run a bash script manually, the output appends my log file in the color specified using tput. When I run the bash script as a cronjob, the output loses the color. Thanks.
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2Can you show the relevant parts of the script? – Reinstate Monica Please Aug 26 '14 at 18:23
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when I run echo $TERM I get xterm. How do I change crontab to use xterm with color? – Ralph Shinevar Aug 27 '14 at 14:14
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Your cron environment almost certainly is just not specifying a terminal type that supports colors and so tput is not returning anything.
Compare:
$ echo $TERM
xterm-256color
$ printf %q\\n "$(tput setaf 5)"
$'\E[35m'
$ printf %q\\n "$(TERM=dumb tput setaf 5)"
''
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when I run echo $TERM I get xterm. How do I change crontab to use xterm with color? – Ralph Shinevar Aug 27 '14 at 14:15
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`export TERM=xterm` or whatever other value you want to set for it or use the `-T` flag to `tput` to tell it what terminfo entry to use. – Etan Reisner Aug 27 '14 at 14:24
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I put TERM=xterm export TERM in the bash_profile file and the colors are working! Thanks. – Ralph Shinevar Aug 27 '14 at 16:33
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I put TERM=xterm export TERM in the bash_profile file and the colors are working.
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