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how to have multiple colors in a batch file?
Colorizing Windows command line output from PHP

Let me just make this very clear: I am on WINDOWS, so \033[0;35mText WILL NOT WORK.

Sorry to have to emphasize like that, but every possible duplicate I have seen has people saying to use the above code regardless of what OS the question is about.

Now, I know it’s possible without too much trouble – ffmpeg does exactly the kind of thing I want to do:

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So how hard can it be?

Answer 1

Use SetConsoleTextAttribute to set the text colour.