How to preserve colors in stdout while piping to tee

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Issue

  • How can text color be preserved when piping command output to tee?
  • The text color in stdout is lost when piping command output into tee:
# ansible-playbook -i hosts test.yaml | tee ansible.out

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • 7

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