Color in bash

[source] http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/colorizing.html

• echo -e '\E[COLOR1;COLOR2mSome text goes here.'

Color	Foreground	Background
black	30	40
red	31	41
green	32	42
yellow	33	43
blue	34	44
magenta	35	45
cyan	36	46
white	37	47

Example:

• bash$ echo -e '\E[34;47mThis prints in blue.'; tput sgr0

• bash$ echo -e '\E[33;44m'"yellow text on blue background"; tput sgr0

The tput sgr0 restores the terminal settings to normal. Omitting this lets all subsequent output from that particular terminal remain blue.

The simplest, and perhaps most useful ANSI escape sequence is bold text, \033[1m ... \033[0m. The \033 represents an escape, the "[1" turns on the bold attribute, while the "[0" switches it off. The "m" terminates each term of the escape sequence.

• bash$ echo -e "\033[1mThis is bold text.\033[0m"