I use the command docker run --rm -it govim bash -l to run Docker images, but it does not display color output.
If I source ~/.bash_profile or run bash -l again, output will then correctly be output with color.
7 Answers
The OP SolomonT reports that docker run with env do work:
docker run --rm -it -e "TERM=xterm-256color" govim bash -l
And Fernando Correia adds in the comments:
To get both color support and make
tmuxwork, I combined both examples:
docker exec -it my-container env TERM=xterm-256color script -q -c "/bin/bash" /dev/null
As chepner commented (earlier answer), .bash_profile is sourced (itis an interactive shell), since bash_prompt is called by .bash_profile.
But docker issue 9299 illustrates that TERM doesn't seem to be set right away, forcing the users to open another bash with:
docker exec -ti test env TERM=xterm-256color bash -l
You have similar color issues with issue 8755.
To illustrate/reproduce the problem:
docker exec -ti $CONTAINER_NAME tty
not a tty
The current workaround is :
docker exec -ti `your_container_id` script -q -c "/bin/bash" /dev/null
Both are supposing you have a running container first, which might not be convenient here.
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SolomonT
I read all link you list and find out when run docker with env TERM="xterm-256color", my bash prompt display color again. Thank you so much.
VonC
@SolomonT Great! I have included your comment in the answer for more visibility. Can you review it?
ThorSummoner
I missed the
-t flag, that one is important for this to work.
Fernando Correia
To get both color support and make
tmux work, I combined both examples: docker exec -it my-container env TERM=xterm script -q -c "/bin/bash" /dev/nullVonC
@FernandoCorreia Thank you. I have included your comment in the answer for more visibility.
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Adding -t is working for me:
docker exec -t vendor/bin/phpunit
5 Comments
Nagev
Also worked with
docker run, no -e needed.
TheGaldozer
I needed -t along with --env "TERM=xterm-256color"
arcanemachine
This actually worked for me. Kinda surprised TBH.
João Pimentel Ferreira
simple and efficient
Aaron
-t is enough to get access to the basic 16-color palette (probably good enough for most). But you also need the -e "TERM=xterm-256color" if you want to use the rest of the extended 256-color ANSI palette.Based on VonC's answer I adding the following to my Dockerfile (which allows me to run the container without typing the environment variables on the command line every time):
ENV TERM xterm-256color
#... more stuff
CMD ["bash", "-l"]
And sure enough it works with:
docker run -it my-image:tag
For tmux to work with color, in my ~/.tmux.conf I need:
set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"
and for UTF-8 support in tmux, in my ~/.bashrc:
alias tmux='tmux -u'
My Dockerfile:
FROM fedora:26
ENV TERM xterm-256color
RUN dnf upgrade -y && \
dnf install golang tmux git vim -y && \
mkdir -p /app/go/{bin,pkg,src} && \
echo 'export GOPATH=/app/go' >> $HOME/.bashrc && \
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin' >> $HOME/.bashrc && \
mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle && \
curl -LSso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim \
https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim && \
git clone https://github.com/farazdagi/vim-go-ide.git \
~/.vim_go_runtime && \
bash ~/.vim_go_runtime/bin/install && \
echo "alias govim='vim -u ~/.vimrc.go'" >> ~/.bashrc && \
echo "alias tmux='tmux -u'" >> ~/.bashrc && \
echo 'set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"' >> ~/.tmux.conf
CMD ["bash", "-l"]
The Dockerfile builds an image based off Fedora 26, updates it, installs a few packages (Git, Vim, golang and tmux), installs the pathogen plugin for Vim, then it installs a Git repository from here vim-go-ide and finally does a few tweaks to a few configuration files to get color and UTF-8 working fine. You just need to add persistent storage, probably mounted under /app/go.
If you have an image with all the development tools already installed, just make a Dockerfile with ENV statement and add the commands to modify the configuration files in a RUN statement without the installation commands and use your base image in the FROM statement. I prefer this solution because I'm lazy and (besides the initial setup) it saves typing when you want to run the image.
Comments
Adding to VonC's answer, I made this Bash function:
drun() { # start container with the specified entrypoint and colour terminal
if [[ $# -lt 2 ]]; then
echo "drun needs 2+ arguments: image entrypoint" >&2
return
fi
docker run -ti -e "TERM=xterm-256color" "$@"
}
Comments
I think this is something that you'd have to implement manually. My container has Python, so here's how I print in color using a single line:
Example Docker file:
FROM django:python3
RUN python -c "print('\033[90m HELLO_WORLD \033[0m')"
RUN python -c "print('\033[91m HELLO_WORLD \033[0m')"
RUN python -c "print('\033[92m HELLO_WORLD \033[0m')"
RUN python -c "print('\033[93m HELLO_WORLD \033[0m')"
RUN python -c "print('\033[94m HELLO_WORLD \033[0m')"
RUN python -c "print('\033[95m HELLO_WORLD \033[0m')"
RUN python -c "print('\033[96m HELLO_WORLD \033[0m')"
RUN python -c "print('\033[97m HELLO_WORLD \033[0m')"
RUN python -c "print('\033[98m HELLO_WORLD \033[0m')"
Standard terminal:
Comments
You need to add the following line to your Dockerfile:
RUN echo PS1="'"'\[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\ \033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '"'" >> /app/.bashrc
Change the /app/.bashrc to where your .bashrc file is in the docker.
If you want ls command to have colors too add this line:
RUN echo alias ls="'"'ls --color=auto'"'" >> /app/.bashrc
Comments
Just adding -e "color_prompt=yes" worked for me.
docker run -it -e "color_prompt=yes" my-image:tag
.bash_promptfrom.bashrc(where you used to setPS1manually, instead of from.bash_profile? (That's technically more correct; you might want to setPS1for an interactive shell that isn't also a login shell.)