Progress bar won't render when redirecting output to a file

[jainanshul]

I have a node program that used progress bar to display the progress of various long running operations. I redirect the output to a file to be viewed later but the no information about the progress bar is being stored in the file. I only see empty new lines instead of progress bar. I don't expect the progress bar to show the progress bar itself but if it can at least write the progress percentage in the file it would really help.

[roccomuso]

Probably because this module works only with a writable stream in a text terminal (tty) context.

Check lib/node-progress.js#L126

if (!this.stream.isTTY) return;

[db-ryan]

But if you comment that line out you get the error seen here: https://github.com/visionmedia/node-progress/issues/166

Or, at least I do. So I am wondering if there is a workaround. I am basically just using tee to capture this to a log. I don't need the log to be pretty.

[db-ryan]

The fix in this issue works:

https://github.com/visionmedia/node-progress/issues/110

I will try to work on a PR that includes this as a forced option.

[ryan-frankel]

I made the PR to add this as an option: https://github.com/visionmedia/node-progress/pull/168