MSYS prints strange characters strings

Question

MSYS is printing some strange characters (whitespaces, nulls, etc.) to the terminal. Makes the results of my unit tests a bit cryptic. Any idea on how to fix this? I'm looking into possibly piping it to a script that will clean the output.

$ bundle exec rspec spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb
←[32m.←[0m←[32m.←[0m

Finished in 0.96875 seconds
←[32m2 examples, 0 failures←[0m

Answer 1

Ok, I figured out that I can pipe the output through cat. If anyone has a better idea, feel free to share!

$ bundle exec rspec spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb | cat

Answer 2

A bit late but I think this solves the problem in an easier way than parsing commands throuh cat!

In Msys I set the TERM env variable to xterm and output is nicely printed. You could consider adding

export TERM=xterm

to your .bashrc.