[eigengrau]

> You can trick isatty, but only if you're very, very set on doing so. It requires allocating a psuedo-TTY, and attaching it.

You can also LD_PRELOAD an isatty shim that returns true. This is occasionally useful when piping the output of tools which disable ANSI colorization with no switch to re-enable that.

[arghwhat]

"script" is also a quick and dirty hack. It's a small tool meant to record a shell session, but if you set the output to /dev/null, it is effectively just a pty wrapper. Quicker than writing a shim.

[jacquesm]

Never thought of that, that is a neat trick, thank you.