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Output and color

sbxm writes results to standard output. Progress, prompts, warnings, and errors go to standard error, so redirecting a result does not mix diagnostics into it.

Setting Effect
--color=auto Color a stream only when it is a terminal (default)
--color=always Color even a redirected stream
--color=never Never color anything
NO_COLOR Disable color for any value, including empty
CLICOLOR_FORCE Enable color unless the value is 0
TERM=dumb Disable color and use ASCII markers

An explicit --color wins over environment variables. Disabling color does not remove information: markers, labels, and blank lines keep the same meaning.