It works and it is great ! :-) That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanx you for your assistance
Am Freitag, 12. September 2003 18:32 schrieb Marshal Newrock: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, momesana wrote: > > Does anybody know how to set colors on the terminals? > > I don't mean the colors associated with the ls command which can be > > realized by the entry alias="ls --color" in ./bashrc or ./profile but > > rather a way to controll how output to the console looks like. I need > > this because I want to make shellscripts that output something on screen > > look better (just like emerge :-) ). > > I have tried: > > setterm -foreground ... -background ... > > but it wouldn't work. > > The only thing that works is setterm -bold under X and setterm > > -reversescreen under the ordinary shells (without X). > > What you want is ANSI escape sequences. The best source for that I've > seen is the bash prompt howto: > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x343.html > > If you have a mail reader capable of interpreting ANSI codes, I wouldn't > be able to show you here, but I can tell you the following: > You must use 'echo -e' or echo won't interpret it. > The code just needs to start with \0... (the \[ before that in the > examples is just for putting a [ at the beginning of the prompt). > > Happy coloring. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
