Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 00:33:58 +0200 From: Mathias Menzel-Nielsen <matze@matzsoft.de> To: "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> Cc: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: colors in messages Message-ID: <446E47D6.1050706@matzsoft.de> In-Reply-To: <20060519.150338.12386.853944@webmail45.nyc.untd.com> References: <20060519.150338.12386.853944@webmail45.nyc.untd.com>
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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....
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