如何在 Windows git-bash 终端上获得彩色输出？

Question

How do I get colorized highlighting on the output?
eg

npm start  
npm test
etc.

System:
Windows 10
Git version 2.16.1.windows.4
Node 5.6.0

Answer 1

Uninstall Git Bash for Windows 10 and run the installer again:

• Click next until you'll prompt to choose to Configure the terminal emulator to use with Git Bash , here you select Use Windows default console window (instead of the default option which use MinTTY as terminal emulator)
• Click next and finish the installation

Test if it works correctly:

• Open Git Bash (cmd will open up), try to use ls you'll see all folder colored in blue
• Try some ANSI escape code by running echo -e "\\033[44m\\033[37m Test \\033[0m" you'll se the text Test with a blue background as seen in the screenshot below

Windows 10 Console support 24-bit color and ANSI escape sequences

Answer 2

The terminal was a MinTTY, which does not support colors it seems. Fixed it by re-installing and ticking of Windows Terminal.

Answer 3

For me, it was choosing Windows default console window instead of MinTTY that made color output not working.

My solution:

1. Uninstall git bash ; during installing, choose MinTTY (the default option).
2. After installation, head over to C:\\Program Files\\Git\\etc , open your git bash
3. vim ~/.bashrc (for some reason using an editor doesn't work; I guess it's a privilege issue)
4. Under # Add colors to 'ls' change it to alias ls='ls --color=auto'

Then restart and it should work.

My version: git version 2.24.1.windows.2

Answer 4

Use winpty

Windows Git Bash has some documented quirks: Winpty and Git Bash

$ winpty npm start
winpty: error: cannot start 'npm': Not found in PATH

Again another windows / git bash quirk, it doesn't attempt to resolve executables ending in .cmd so it needs a nudge.

$ winpty npm.cmd start

The same applies for yarn with:

winpty yarn.cmd start

While we are here and you are having trouble getting gyp to locate your Python2 install location to compile native extensions then try this:

env PYTHON=/c/Python27/ winpty yarn.cmd install

Git Bash overrides your PYTHON environment variable for only the duration of this command. You get winpty to run the pseudo-tty session to allow animation rendering and coloring.

Assuming your python 2 install location is C:\\Python27