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[GH-ISSUE #2736] Prefix Job StdOut and StdErr #1238

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opened 2026-03-01 21:49:52 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

kerem commented

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Originally created by @qoomon on GitHub (Apr 20, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/2736

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0.2.76

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Currently the stdout and stderr logs of a job are just logged with a colored prefix of | that makes it quite hard to know to which job a log line belongs to.

Therefore I would suggest to prefix all output lines a like to the other job related logs e.g., [build.yaml/test-job]

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Originally created by @qoomon on GitHub (Apr 20, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/2736 ### Act version 0.2.76 ### Feature description Currently the stdout and stderr logs of a job are just logged with a colored prefix of `| ` that makes it quite hard to know to which job a log line belongs to. Therefore I would suggest to prefix all output lines a like to the other job related logs e.g., `[build.yaml/test-job]` WDYT?

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@ChristopherHX commented on GitHub (Apr 21, 2025):

I think this was by design to reduce the noise of long workflow + job names filling the Terminal, if this is not opt in like a cli flag, I think this FR needs 100+ upvotes.

Afaik act | cat would work. The long form is only used if colors are disabled / no tty is attached, so NO_COLOR env might have the same effect.

If you want to parse the output --json is the way to go.

@ChristopherHX commented on GitHub (Apr 21, 2025): I think this was by design to reduce the noise of long workflow + job names filling the Terminal, if this is not opt in like a cli flag, I think this FR needs 100+ upvotes. Afaik `act | cat` would work. The long form is only used if colors are disabled / no tty is attached, so `NO_COLOR` env might have the same effect. If you want to parse the output `--json` is the way to go.

kerem commented

2026-03-01 21:49:53 +03:00

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@qoomon commented on GitHub (Apr 21, 2025):

@ChristopherHX thx for the explanation. And thanks for the hint towards --json

@qoomon commented on GitHub (Apr 21, 2025): @ChristopherHX thx for the explanation. And thanks for the hint towards `--json`

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[PR #1238] [MERGED] Improve docs for events inputs #1853

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