How can I print lines to the console in a certain color?

abefroman · 10-08-2013, 09:03 AM

How can I print lines to the console in a certain color?

IE. Hello World in a red font, green font, etc.

TIA

Habitual · 10-08-2013, 09:19 AM

Code:

printf "\033[2;32mHello World\033[0m"

Stolen from here...

grail · 10-08-2013, 10:03 AM

Also works with echo

NevemTeve · 10-08-2013, 02:06 PM

abefroman · 10-30-2013, 02:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grail

Also works with echo

How do you get it to work with echo?

I got the following:

Code:

$ ./color.sh 
\033[2;32mHello World\033[0m

abefroman · 10-30-2013, 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by abefroman

How do you get it to work with echo?

I got the following:

Code:

$ ./color.sh 
\033[2;32mHello World\033[0m

Found it, I have to use echo -e