Colouring things in Linux/Shell

Vampirite · 02-19-2006, 06:21 AM

Just a thing, I have been using some other Distributions like Arch and Mandrake which make use of colour in their scripts (eg. startup scripts).

After looking at these scripts I have found random symbols and numbers which manage to acheive colour?

This is also the case in ~/.bash_profile.

How does this work? How do they do it?

Thanks

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Kourosh

cs-cam · 02-19-2006, 06:23 AM

Tha magic link

http://linuxgazette.net/issue65/padala.html

camorri · 02-19-2006, 06:27 AM

Here is a link that will help. It describes how to change your prompt and to colour.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork.../l-tip-prompt/

Vampirite · 02-19-2006, 07:28 AM

Thanks, great help!

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Kourosh