diff --git a/packages/create-nx-workspace/bin/output.ts b/packages/create-nx-workspace/bin/output.ts
index 0a9b4dde8c86e..8e79887e18740 100644
--- a/packages/create-nx-workspace/bin/output.ts
+++ b/packages/create-nx-workspace/bin/output.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,29 @@
+/*
+ * Because we don't want to depend on @nrwl/workspace (to speed up the workspace creation)
+ * we duplicate the helper functions from @nrwl/workspace in this file.
+ */
+
 import * as chalk from 'chalk';
 import { EOL } from 'os';
-import { isCI } from './is-ci';
-import { TaskStatus } from '../tasks-runner/tasks-runner';
+
+export function isCI() {
+  return (
+    process.env.CI === 'true' ||
+    process.env.TF_BUILD === 'true' ||
+    process.env['bamboo.buildKey'] ||
+    process.env.BUILDKITE === 'true' ||
+    process.env.CIRCLECI === 'true' ||
+    process.env.CIRRUS_CI === 'true' ||
+    process.env.CODEBUILD_BUILD_ID ||
+    process.env.GITHUB_ACTIONS === 'true' ||
+    process.env.GITLAB_CI ||
+    process.env.HEROKU_TEST_RUN_ID ||
+    process.env.BUILD_ID ||
+    process.env.BUILD_BUILDID ||
+    process.env.TEAMCITY_VERSION ||
+    process.env.TRAVIS === 'true'
+  );
+}
 
 export interface CLIErrorMessageConfig {
   title: string;
@@ -28,15 +50,12 @@ export interface CLISuccessMessageConfig {
 /**
  * Automatically disable styling applied by chalk if CI=true
  */
-const forceColor =
-  process.env.FORCE_COLOR === '' || process.env.FORCE_COLOR === 'true';
-if (isCI() && !forceColor) {
+if (isCI()) {
   (chalk as any).level = 0;
 }
 
 class CLIOutput {
   readonly X_PADDING = ' ';
-  cliName = 'NX';
 
   /**
    * Longer dash character which forms more of a continuous line when place side to side
@@ -96,12 +115,12 @@ class CLIOutput {
     let nxPrefix = '';
     if (chalk[color]) {
       nxPrefix = `${chalk[color]('>')} ${chalk.reset.inverse.bold[color](
-        ` ${this.cliName} `
+        ' NX '
       )}`;
     } else {
       nxPrefix = `${chalk.keyword(color)(
         '>'
-      )} ${chalk.reset.inverse.bold.keyword(color)(` ${this.cliName} `)}`;
+      )} ${chalk.reset.inverse.bold.keyword(color)(' NX ')}`;
     }
     return `${nxPrefix}  ${text}`;
   }
@@ -209,28 +228,7 @@ class CLIOutput {
     this.addNewline();
   }
 
-  logCommand(message: string, taskStatus?: TaskStatus) {
-    // normalize the message
-    if (message.startsWith('nx run ')) {
-      message = message.substring('nx run '.length);
-    } else if (message.startsWith('run ')) {
-      message = message.substring('run '.length);
-    }
-
-    this.addNewline();
-    let commandOutput = `${chalk.dim('> nx run')} ${message}`;
-    if (taskStatus === 'local-cache') {
-      commandOutput += `  ${chalk.dim('[local cache]')}`;
-    } else if (taskStatus === 'remote-cache') {
-      commandOutput += `  ${chalk.dim('[remote cache]')}`;
-    } else if (taskStatus === 'local-cache-kept-existing') {
-      commandOutput += `  ${chalk.dim(
-        '[existing outputs match the cache, left as is]'
-      )}`;
-    }
-    this.writeToStdOut(commandOutput);
-    this.addNewline();
-  }
+  logCommand(message: string) {}
 
   log({ title, bodyLines, color }: CLIWarnMessageConfig & { color?: string }) {
     this.addNewline();
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/utils/output.ts b/packages/nx/src/utils/output.ts
index 0a9b4dde8c86e..41ce1f8d8c65c 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/utils/output.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/utils/output.ts
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ if (isCI() && !forceColor) {
 class CLIOutput {
   readonly X_PADDING = ' ';
   cliName = 'NX';
+  formatCommand = (message: string) => `${chalk.dim('> nx run')} ${message}`;
 
   /**
    * Longer dash character which forms more of a continuous line when place side to side
@@ -210,26 +211,47 @@ class CLIOutput {
   }
 
   logCommand(message: string, taskStatus?: TaskStatus) {
-    // normalize the message
+    this.addNewline();
+    const commandOutput = this.formatCommand(this.normalizeMessage(message));
+    const commandOutputWithStatus = this.addTaskStatus(
+      taskStatus,
+      commandOutput
+    );
+    this.writeToStdOut(commandOutputWithStatus);
+    this.addNewline();
+  }
+
+  private normalizeMessage(message: string) {
     if (message.startsWith('nx run ')) {
-      message = message.substring('nx run '.length);
+      return message.substring('nx run '.length);
     } else if (message.startsWith('run ')) {
-      message = message.substring('run '.length);
+      return message.substring('run '.length);
+    } else {
+      return message;
     }
+  }
 
-    this.addNewline();
-    let commandOutput = `${chalk.dim('> nx run')} ${message}`;
+  private addTaskStatus(
+    taskStatus:
+      | 'success'
+      | 'failure'
+      | 'skipped'
+      | 'local-cache-kept-existing'
+      | 'local-cache'
+      | 'remote-cache',
+    commandOutput: string
+  ) {
     if (taskStatus === 'local-cache') {
-      commandOutput += `  ${chalk.dim('[local cache]')}`;
+      return `${commandOutput}  ${chalk.dim('[local cache]')}`;
     } else if (taskStatus === 'remote-cache') {
-      commandOutput += `  ${chalk.dim('[remote cache]')}`;
+      return `${commandOutput}  ${chalk.dim('[remote cache]')}`;
     } else if (taskStatus === 'local-cache-kept-existing') {
-      commandOutput += `  ${chalk.dim(
+      return `${commandOutput}  ${chalk.dim(
         '[existing outputs match the cache, left as is]'
       )}`;
+    } else {
+      return commandOutput;
     }
-    this.writeToStdOut(commandOutput);
-    this.addNewline();
   }
 
   log({ title, bodyLines, color }: CLIWarnMessageConfig & { color?: string }) {