Powershell tricks
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ANSI colours
After running this script from a powershell prompt (to load it), you can use the tool
cat
to print text colourized.Add-Type -MemberDefinition @" [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError=true)] public static extern bool SetConsoleMode(IntPtr hConsoleHandle, int mode); [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError=true)] public static extern IntPtr GetStdHandle(int handle); [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError=true)] public static extern bool GetConsoleMode(IntPtr handle, out int mode); "@ -namespace win32 -name nativemethods $h = [win32.nativemethods]::getstdhandle(-11) # stdout $m = 0 $success = [win32.nativemethods]::getconsolemode($h, [ref]$m) $m = $m -bor 4 # undocumented flag to enable ansi/vt100 $success = [win32.nativemethods]::setconsolemode($h, $m)See Also