[Eug-lug] To Horst-Q/colours

[Bob Miller]

Allen Brown wrote:

> This is not working for me.  All I get is a box where I try to
> print the escape char, followed by the other chars.
>   ESC=$(echo -ne "\033")
>   echo -e "${ESC}31;1foo"
> should print a red "foo".  Instead I get
>   []31;1foo
> where [] represents a single character.

Uh, the sequence you need to output is

	escape left-bracket number semicolon one letter-m

And to return to normal color, you need to output

	escal left-bracket letter-m

Or, in bash syntax,

	echo "${ESC}[31;1mfoo${ESC}[m"

Did you catch the python script I sent out last week on this topic?

-- 
Bob Miller                              K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com                     kbob at jogger-egg.com