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>
>
>
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