This plugin adds support for standard ANSI escape sequences, including color, to Console Output.
This plugin is available here and has a page on the Jenkins Wiki.
Create a job in Jenkins that executes the following shell script. Don't forget to check the "Color the ANSI Console Output" option.
printf "\e[31mHello World\e[0m\n"
printf "Normal \e[1mBold\e[0m\n"
printf "Normal \e[4mUnderlined\e[0m\n"
Check out this guide for more examples.
If you commonly use Zsh as your login shell, it's important to keep in mind
that the echo command (shell builtin) supports character escaping.
Bash however, does not.
This can cause you a bit of confusion. For example, if you test your
shell scripts (which use echo) in Zsh, and they work fine. Then you
try to run them as part of a job on Jenkins (which will use be using
Bash by default), it's quite possible you won't see colorized output,
instead, you only see the ANSI control codes, still embedded in your
text.
There are ways around this, however, we recommend you use the printf
command instead. It'll just work everywhere, and allow \e, \033
or \x1b to be used as the escape character.
For example:
printf "\e[31mHello\e[0m\n"
printf "\033[31mHello\033[0m\n"
printf "\x1b[31mHello\x1b[0m\n"
Will all print Hello in red on any system / shell that has printf (ie. anything POSIX compliant)
Only the standard ANSI Color Codes are supported for both foreground
and background colors. "High Intensity" colors in the 90-109 range are non-standard are not supported. The colorize
ruby library, for example, emits high intensity codes when using the "light" color options.
See issue #16 for a sample of non-standard output.
RSpec formatters detect whether RSpec is running in a terminal or not, therefore suppressing color output under Jenkins. Specify --colour --tty when calling rspec or add it to your .rspec file.
The build wrapper can be used to colorize the output of steps in a workflow. The example below shows how to use it.
wrap([$class: 'AnsiColorBuildWrapper', 'colorMapName': 'XTerm', 'defaultFg': 1, 'defaultBg': 2]) {
sh 'something that outputs ansi colored stuff'
}The ANSI Color Plugin is licensed under the MIT License.
It uses JANSI (Apache 2.0 License).
See CONTRIBUTING.