Re: Examining the output of a shell command?

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com> writes:

> On 28/06/15 15:57, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>> (shell-command-to-string "echo $RED hello $NORMAL")
>> --> "[31m hello [0m> "
>
> Hence, how could I capture a colorized output in Emacs as in a Bash
> session?

This is an entirely different question, isn't it.

In *shell* and other comint based modes, you can activate interpretion
of ANSI escape codes for colorizing with 
M-x ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on RET

You can process the string with ansi-color-apply:

(ansi-color-apply
 (shell-command-to-string "echo $RED hello $YELLOW world $NORMAL"))
--> #(" hello  world 
" 0 7 (font-lock-face (foreground-color . "red")) 7 14 (font-lock-face (foreground-color . "yellow")))

(insert (ansi-color-apply
          (shell-command-to-string "echo $RED hello $YELLOW world $NORMAL")))
 hello  world 
  ^red    ^yellow
--> nil


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