# Ack!  Color!  Make it stop!

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ack-color-make-it-stop/23174>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 5, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ack-color-make-it-stop/23174 "2016-12-05T21:09:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![K\_Richard\_Pixley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@K\_Richard\_Pixley](https://forum.ansible.com/u/K_Richard_Pixley)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ack-color-make-it-stop/23174/1 "2016-12-05T21:09:44Z")

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Hi. I’m a total ansible newbie. My first attempt to run a command came out totally illegible as it’s in color.

How do I turn this off? Forever. Never ask me again, legible output only, please.

I looked through the man page thinking this would be a frequently asked question, but I’m not seeing anything.

–rich

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**Author:** ![Stankovic\_Marko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@Stankovic\_Marko](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Stankovic_Marko)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ack-color-make-it-stop/23174/2 "2016-12-07T16:09:59Z")

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To do this forever, uncomment (or add) this line in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg:  
nocolor = 1

Documentation: [http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro\_configuration.html#nocolor](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_configuration.html#nocolor)

Cheers,

Marko