How to pass color:no on command line

[milnak]

I'm fine with my "color: yes" config, but for some commands, e.g.

beet bad format:mp3 | tee bad-mp3.txt

i dont want color as it ends up putting ansi characters into the output file. is there a way for me to do something like beet --no-color bad format:mp3 ?

(maybe this is specific to the "badfiles" plugin?)

Update: I found a workaround:

export NO_COLOR=1
beet bad format:mp3 | tee bad-mp3.txt
export NO_COLOR=

but I'd prefer a command-line options.

[InvisibleFunction]

Can you just run:

NO_COLOR=1 beet bad format:mp3 | tee bad-mp3.txt

[milnak]

had no idea that's legal syntax. thanks!

[wisp3rwind]

Probably, beets shouldn't colorize in the first place (at least by default) if output is to a file or pipe rather than a tty.

[milnak]

Created #5837