I know one of the common Julia workflows in Windows is to run Julia through MinGW’s bash (popularly available with git): [image] Using Julia on Git bash New to Julia Sorry to hear that. This definitely works for me: I put the following into start.bat start "" "%PROGRAMFIL…

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> run(`ls`) . . . Process(`ls`, ProcessExited(0)) …

Okay that is interesting, my git bash doesn’t even work. What version of git are you on exactly? Mine is: $ where git C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe $ git --version git version 2.27.0.windows.1

What I actually do is run the MINGW64 terminal [image] Why do you need to run powershell or cmd and start bash from there?

I get the same jumbled text even when in Mintty (MINGW64), so that doesn’t change anything: [image] Thanks for the link to your portable julia packaging, will check it out.

Also in shell mode: [image] I’m gonna install an updated version of git and see if that fixes anything.

Newer version of Git didn’t help, but it seems like the problem occurs in Julia version 1.5.3. I quickly downloaded an arbitrarily old version of Julia and saw that it doesn’t occur in Julia version 1.1.1 On which version of Julia did you guys test this on? Edit: ran some extra tests works on 1.…

Some further investigation lead me to believe that this doesn’t have anything to do with the shell environment, but with the actual mingw binaries being executed. For example, if I run a normal Julia session in Windows, then (correctly so) echo doesn’t work, but does work under cmd /c "echo ...". B…

That is weird. I don’t see anything wrong: [image] PKrysl@Spectre MINGW64 ~ $ echo "${BASH_VERSION}" 4.4.23(1)-release Edit: Your example. [image] Edit 2: with the latest portable Git. [image]

[image] heetbeet: works on 1.1.1 works on 1.3.1 works on 1.4.2 doesn’t work on 1.5.3 (also tested on an additional newly downloaded version) works on 1.6.0-DEV.1564 (2020-11-24) When you say it works on all versions except 1.5.3, are you testing with the official julia distributions or your …

Getting Julia REPL working in Windows git/bash

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PetrKryslUCSD November 24, 2020, 10:28pm 5

I think you might have seen this, but in case you haven’t: Portable Julia - #6 by PetrKryslUCSD

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