preserve color when executing child_process.spawn

node.js

Solution

Try this instead:

var spawn = require('child_process').spawn
  , command = 'C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v4.0.30319\\MSBuild c:\\test.sln'
  , cmd    = spawn('cmd', ['/s', '/c', command], { customFds: [0,1,2] });

cmd.on('exit', function(code){
    console.log(code);
});

Note that I'm not positive whether or not `customFds` works on Windows. I know that it's old deprecated functionality doesn't work, but when only passing `[0,1,2]` as the fd's, I think there is a special case for that.

I've been doing something similar here, but I've only ran that command on Unix machines. So let me know if that works on Windows.

Problem

I'm trying to execute a windows command through cmd.exe in node.js using child_process.spawn. It executes correctly, but only displays in default text color. How do I preserver the color. Is it possible? ``` var spawn = require('child_process').spawn, cmd = spawn('cmd', ['/s', '/c', 'C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v4.0.30319\\MSBuild c:\\test.sln']); cmd.stdout.on('data', function(data){ process.stdout.write(data); }); cmd.stderr.on('data', function(data){ process.stderr.write(data); }); cmd.on('exit', function(code){ console.log(code); }); ``` When executing via node, the color is not preserved. When executing via cmd.exe directly, the color is present. (This is the expected behavior). How do I get this behvior when executing via node.

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