Commands generate colorized output even when the TERM environment variable is set to xterm-mono

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The TERM variable is set to xterm-mono but some commands output still generate colorized output

export TERM=xterm; export TERM=vt100; export TERM=xterm-mono
Changing the value of the TERM env variable does not affect crontab -l

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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