Here's my bash prompt:

COLOR1="\033[1;35m"
COLOR2="\033[1;36m"
COLOR3="\033[1;32m"
COLOR4="\033[0m"
PS1="[$COLOR2\u$COLOR4@$COLOR1\h $COLOR3\w$COLOR4]\$ "

If you want to output a color in a shell script, just use echo -e
For example, 

echo -e "\033[1;36mHello World\033[0m"

Or in Perl:

perl -e 'print "\033[1;35mHello World\033[0m\n"'

If you have a "friend" that you'd like to torment, set their PS1 in
.bash_profile and .bashrc to:

PS1="\033[01;05;37;41m\$ "

~M


On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Nathan England wrote:

> <dummymode>
> I am playing with the color schemes that knoppix uses when outputing
> message while booting.
> 
> CRE="^M^[[K"
> NORMAL="^[[0;39m"	#Normal Color
> RED="^[[1;31m"		#Failure
> GREEN="^[[1;32m"	#Success
> YELLOW="^[[1,33m"	#Unused
> BLUE="^[[1;34m"		#System Messages
> MAGENTA="^[[1;35m"	#Description
> CYAN="^[[1;36m"		#Unused
> WHITE="^[[1;37m"	#Unused
> 
> But I'm failing somewhere.
> I tried 
> echo "${BLUE}Hello there.${NORMAL}"
> 
> But, it doesn't work.
> it comes back 
> echo "^[[1;31mHello there.^[[0;39m
> 
> How do I make this work? Obviously I've never used ansi colors before.
> 
> Thanks for any input.
> 
> </dummymode>
> 
>