How to see color Ant output in MSYS/Git Bash?

Question

I\'d like to use AnsiColorLogger to get color ouput from Ant. I\'m using Git Bash on Windows.

I tried:

$ ant -logger org.apache.tools.ant.listener.A         


        

Answer 1

it's probably even easier to just set the environment variable ANT_ARGS. e.g. just put this in your .bashrc:

export ANT_ARGS='-logger org.apache.tools.ant.listener.AnsiColorLogger'

Answer 2

After much Googling and experimentation, I combined several variations into a solution that works well for the particular combination of Git Bash, Ant and Windows.

Relaunch Git Bash after adding the following lines to your .bashrc file:

alias ant='cant'
function cant {
  "ant" -logger org.apache.tools.ant.listener.AnsiColorLogger "$@" \
      2>&1 | perl -pe 's/(?<=\e\[)2;//g'
}

Git Bash Noob Tip: .bashrc file, if it exists, lives in your home directory. Here's how to create/edit it:

$ cd
$ notepad .bashrc &