From 38f163022373c9adb050f17140f7d29bb403abe2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: VishnuJin <45007338+VishnuJin@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:35:40 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix(cli): don't add colors for non-tty outputs (#13031)

---
 runtime/colors.rs | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/runtime/colors.rs b/runtime/colors.rs
index 00241b4e0d..54bc0abe68 100644
--- a/runtime/colors.rs
+++ b/runtime/colors.rs
@@ -9,11 +9,14 @@ use termcolor::{Ansi, ColorSpec, WriteColor};
 use termcolor::{BufferWriter, ColorChoice};
 
 lazy_static::lazy_static! {
+// checks if the output is piped to a tty
+  static ref IS_TTY: bool = atty::is(atty::Stream::Stdout);
   static ref NO_COLOR: bool = std::env::var_os("NO_COLOR").is_some();
 }
 
+// if the output is piped to a tty, use color
 pub fn use_color() -> bool {
-  !(*NO_COLOR)
+  !(*NO_COLOR) && *IS_TTY
 }
 
 #[cfg(windows)]