Subshell lost ANSI colors

Subshell lost ANSI colors

[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

User@PcName ~
$ bash

User@PcName ~
$ exit
exit

User@PcName ~
$ mksh
\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n$ exit

User@PcName ~
$ fish
Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell
Type help for instructions on how to use fish
User@PcName ~> exit


User@PcName ~
$ sh

User@PcName ~
$ exit
exit

User@PcName ~
$
====================================================================================

Default shell started with installed desktop shortcut (mintty).
bash, sh and fish shells print colorized prompt.
The rest prints ANSI codes.
Same happens in Windows standard console.

Am I doing incorrectly something?


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Best Wishes,
Evgeny Grin

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Re: Subshell lost ANSI colors

[Thomas Wolff]

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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