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mmiikkee12

Sep 28th, 2005 6:33 pm

Colored output in bash?

Anyone know how to put colored text on the screen in a bash script?

mawe	Sep 29th, 2005 1:52 am

Re: Colored output in bash?

Hi!

Use escape sequences: echo -e '\E[color1;color2mYour Text.'
(color1 is the foreground, color2 the background color)

 echo -e '\E[30m black \E[31mred \E[32mgreen \E[33myellow \E[34mblue \E[35mmagenta \E[36mcyan \E[37mwhite'

 echo -e '\E[30;41mblack on red'

Color:           Foreground:           Background:

---------------------------------------------------------

black             30                       40

red               31                       41

green             32                       42

yellow            33                       43

blue              34                       44

magenta           35                       45

cyan              36                       46

white             37                       47

Regards, mawe

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