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Colors in bash

Jul 17th, 2008

I'm trying to add colors to this bash script, can anyone help?

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#!/bin/bash
# Script to connect to the sprint network

# Colors
# ESC_SEQ=“\x1b[“
COL_RESET=$ESC_SEQ“39;49;00m“
COL_RED=$ESC_SEQ“31;01m“
COL_GREEN=$ESC_SEQ“32;01m“
COL_YELLOW=$ESC_SEQ“33;01m“
COL_BLUE=$ESC_SEQ“34;01m“
COL_MAGENTA=$ESC_SEQ“35;01m“
COL_CYAN=$ESC_SEQ“36;01m“

case "$1" in

connect)
	pppd call sprint updetach
	echo -e $COL_GREEN"**You are now connected to the sprint network!"$COL_RESET
	;;

disconnect)
	killall pppd
	echo -e $COL_RED"**You have disconnected from the sprint network!"$COL_RESET
	;;

esac

Here are the errors:

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root@mybox:~/Scripts# ./sprint disconnect
./sprint: line 6: 49: command not found
./sprint: line 6: 00m“: command not found
./sprint: line 7: 01m“: command not found
./sprint: line 8: 01m“: command not found
./sprint: line 9: 01m“: command not found
./sprint: line 10: 01m“: command not found
./sprint: line 11: 01m“: command not found
./sprint: line 12: 01m“: command not found
“31**You have disconnected from the sprint network!“39