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Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 20:23:25 -0400
From: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: colors in messages
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On Sat, 20 May 2006 00:33:58 +0200
Mathias Menzel-Nielsen <matze@matzsoft.de> wrote:

> gs_stoller@juno.com wrote:
> >
> > 	Since I'm asking about  FreeBSD (version 4.3), I'm asking about the  echo ,  print ,  printf , etc. commands, and similar commands ib  PERL ,  awk , etc.
> > 	Where can I find the  vt terminal encoding  for this (hopefully on the internet)?
> >   
> 
> Hi
> 
> a simple googlin' for vt100 color codes brings this as first hit:
> tp://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm
> 
> you can change colors by the escape sequences shown in the link resource.
> 
> for example to get red text use:
> echo ^[[31m
> 
> you can get the escape character by pressing Ctrl-V followed by escape 
> in bash and vi and i suppose other environments....

A bit off-topic but I found this reference quite handy when
experimenting with colors in scripts:

  http://www.tldp.org/linuxfocus/English/May2004/article335.shtml

HTH,

Randy

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