Andrux&me : Shell : using colors

Monochromatic terminal is boring :

There is a way to color your script outputs :

instead of using: echo "*"

use: echo -e "\033[*;*m*"

example :

echo "hello world" displays: hello world

echo -e "\033[1;31;42mhello world" displays :hello world

there is a variety of different colors of both font and background :

echo -e "\033[0;30mGrey 0;30 \033[1;30mBold Grey 1;30"

echo -e "\033[0;31mRed 0;31 \033[1;31mBold Red 1;31"

echo -e "\033[0;32mGreen 0;32 \033[1;32mBold Green 1;32"

echo -e "\033[0;33mYellow 0;33 \033[1;33mBold Yellow 1;33"

echo -e "\033[0;34mBlue 0;34 \033[1;34mBold Blue 1;34"

echo -e "\033[0;35mPurple 0;35 \033[1;35mBold Purple 1;35"

echo -e "\033[0;36mCyan 0;36 \033[1;36mBold Cyan 1;36"

echo -e "\033[0;37mWhite 0;37 \033[1;37mBold white 1;37"

change the first number (3) by 4 (33 --> 43) to set background

to set default colors back : \033[0m

Enjoy your colored scripts !