Reset colors on Windows command line (cmd)
Problem
I often run commands in cmd.exe that have pretty colors in their output, which is great. Unfortunately, sometimes they die in the middle, or I have to kill them, and then the console window itself gets stuck in (say) red text on black background, which is awkward. How do I reset the text color to the default? On a unix terminal, I can type -- I'm looking for the cmd.exe equivalent of that.
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Fix for: Reset colors on Windows command line (cmd)
will set it to the default scheme that cmd.exe uses. Color attributes are specified by TWO hex digits -- the first corresponds to the background; the second the foreground. Each digit can be any of the following values:
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