https://github.com/ali5ter/ansi-color

🎨 Bash ANSI color script migrated from https://code.google.com/p/ansi-color/
https://github.com/ali5ter/ansi-color

ansi-colors ansi-escape-sequences shell

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🎨 Bash ANSI color script migrated from https://code.google.com/p/ansi-color/

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ali5ter/ansi-color
• Owner: ali5ter
• Created: 2015-02-01T19:53:01.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-02-01T19:54:30.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T13:38:15.388Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: ansi-colors, ansi-escape-sequences, shell
• Language: Shell
• Homepage:
• Size: 117 KB
• Stars: 9
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
Color is a simple bash shell script that makes it easy to color and format echo'd text.

It does this by converting combinations of readable arguments (bold, red, green, underline, etc.) into an [ANSI escape sequence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code) that your terminal emulator or console understands.

## Usage

**color** [ effect ] [ [ lt ] fgcolor ] [ bgcolor ]

**color** list

**color** [ -h | --help ]

where:

*fgcolor* and *bgcolor* are one of black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan or white.

*effect* can be any of [ nm | normal ], [ bd | bold ], [ ft | faint ], [ it | italic ], [ ul | underline ], [ bk | blink ], [ fb | fastblink ], [ rv | reverse ], [ iv | invisible ]

Preceed the *fgcolor* with *lt* to use a light color -- the light or faint intensity effect is not commonly implemented within terminal emulators or consoles.

**color off** or just **color** resets to default colors and text effects.

**color --help** provides more detailed help and examples of usage.

**color list** displays all possible color combinations.

## Inspiration and credit

This script was quickly written after I lost the source for Moshe Jacobson's color command. Being compiled, his creation was much quicker but the binary was not portable across the platforms I used. I wrote this in shell script figuring that it would work across the widest selection of command lines.

While the syntax is compatible with Moshe's command, I wanted to add the ability to use multiple text effects and colors in one invocation and add a few more ANSI escape sequences.

Many thanks to Moshe Jacobson.

Also, a big thank you to Ian Lowe for his Debian/Ubuntu installer work.

-alister