Add env variable to remove color from command result stdout (#579)

* add env variable to remove color from command result stdout

* remove color (proper way)

src/utils/misc.ts

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ export function withInterpreter(
   let command = `${executable} ${args}`; // base case
 
   const newEnv = Object.assign({}, process.env, {
+    NO_COLOR: "1", // ensure none of the output produce color characters
     ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR: "0", // ensure output is parseable (no ANSI)
     PYTHONBREAKPOINT: "0", // We want to be sure that python debugger is never
     // triggered, even if we mistakenly left a breakpoint() there while

test/index.ts

@@ -13,9 +13,14 @@ if (isWindows()) {
   process.exit(PRETEST_ERR_RC);
 }
 
+// We don't require colors in the stdout of the command results.
+process.env["NO_COLOR"] = "1";
+
 const command = "ansible-lint --version";
+const env = process.env;
+
 try {
-  const result = execSync(command);
+  const result = execSync(command, { env: env });
   console.info(`Detected: ${result}`);
 } catch (e) {
   console.error(`error: test requisites not met, '${command}' returned ${e}`);