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I did some nodejs work the other month, pinch-hitting in a product crunch, we're using grunt.

`grunt test`.. ooh, so pretty and creative! `grunt test > test.out`, wtf, why is my file full of control character bullshit?

To be fair, they could avoid that by checking if stdout is a TTY or not.

That's an amateur hour mistake on their part, frankly. I hope they have a 'switch color off' flag.

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