Subshell lost ANSI colors

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Thu Oct 20 20:04:00 GMT 2016


Am 20.10.2016 um 21:06 schrieb Evgeny Grin:
> Hi!
>
> Noticed some time ago: most of subshells lost colors and prints some codes.
> Sample output:
> ====================================================================================
> User@PcName ~
> $ dash
> \[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n$ exit
>
> User@PcName ~
> $ ash
> \[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n$ exit
>
> User@PcName ~
> $ zsh
> \[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ exit
>
> ...
> bash, sh and fish shells print colorized prompt.
> The rest prints ANSI codes.
> Same happens in Windows standard console.
>
> Am I doing incorrectly something?
Yes, you expect all shells to have the same capabilities. There are some 
prompt formatting codes in your PS1 that not all shells understand. You 
should set specific PS1 values in shell-specific profiles.
Thomas

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