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coloring the contents of motd file

I want to color the contents of motd file. that should not change the color of the foreground color of terminals and other files.

I am not sure of motd but for say, /etc/issue you need to 'echo -ne' the ansi escape code into the file, you cannot simply type or c/p it...

So:

Code:

$ echo -ne "\033[" > motd

$ echo -ne "0;34m" >> motd

$ echo "yadda yadda yadda" >> motd

$ echo -ne "\033[" >> motd

$ echo -ne "0m" >> motd

will display "yadda yadda yadda" in blue, then return colors to normal.

See this for more:
http://www.togaware.com/linux/surviv...in_Screen.html

Again though, that is for issue. I am not sure motd will even interpret the escapes...