How to trick an application into thinking its stdout is a terminal, not a pipe

Question

I\'m trying to do the opposite of \"Detect if stdin is a terminal or pipe?\".

I\'m running an application that\'s changing its output format because it detects a pip

Answer 1

Aha!

The script command does what we want...

script --return --quiet -c "[executable string]" /dev/null

Does the trick!

Usage:
 script [options] [file]

Make a typescript of a terminal session.

Options:
 -a, --append                  append the output
 -c, --command        run command rather than interactive shell
 -e, --return                  return exit code of the child process
 -f, --flush                   run flush after each write
     --force                   use output file even when it is a link
 -q, --quiet                   be quiet
 -t[], --timing[=] output timing data to stderr or to FILE
 -h, --help                    display this help
 -V, --version                 display version