# Getting Julia REPL working in Windows git/bash

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [November 24, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-julia-repl-working-in-windows-git-bash/50715 "2020-11-24T21:41:01Z")\
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I don’t know what’s going wrong here, but if I run the vanilla julia distribution from bash on windows, it works fine. But if I run julia with winpty, it starts printing similar control characters that you’re seeing.  
That is git bash:

```julia
$ julia
julia> run(`ls`)
.
.
.
Process(`ls`, ProcessExited(0))
julia>

```

works fine. But

```julia
$ winpty julia
julia> run(`ls`)
.
.
.
?[0mProcess(...[some more stuff here]
[some more control characters]julia> [more control characters]

```

breaks. Could be a clue for you to troubleshoot further.

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