Wicked Cool Shell Scripts

#11 ANSI Color Sequences

Although you probably don't realize it, your standard terminal application supports different styles of presenting text. Quite a few variations are possible, whether you'd like to have certain words in your script displayed in bold, or even in red against a yellow background. However, working with ANSI (American National Standards Institute) sequences to represent these variations can be difficult because these sequences are quite user unfriendly. Therefore, this script fragment creates a set of variables, whose values represent the ANSI codes, that can turn on and off the various color and formatting display capabilities.

The Code

 #!/bin/sh # ANSI Color -- Use these variables to make output in different colors # and ...