Nope, not just you. Been coding since the 80's, and command-line tooling has become more noisy and less parser/redirect-friendly over the past decade (but optio

Nope, not just you. Been coding since the 80's, and command-line tooling has become more noisy and less parser/redirect-friendly over the past decade (but option parsers have def. gotten better). To be fair, once terminals started supporting escape color codes, things started to fall apart (circa late 90's). IMHO. EDIT: Just noticed a peer comment below captures the issues with ANSI way better than I did.