Subject: Font Color
Posted By: OzzyUltra Post Date: 9/23/2003 11:22:25 AM
HI,

People i have a little problem with programming on Linux. Right now I am using Kate on Linux for performing my programming needs. I need a to change the color of the font which appears on the standard output. I can't seem to find the header library associated with this particualr function. Please help me out.

its really appreciated
Ozzy

Reply By: ciderpunx Reply Date: 10/22/2004 10:01:51 AM
you can use \033[ <colour_number> m without the spaces eg:
echo -e "\033[42mThis is green\033[0m"

I knocked up a bit of perl to illustrate:

#!/usr/bin/perl

for (30..37,40..47) {
        print "\n" if ($_%10==0);
        print "\033[$_" . "m $_ \033[0m";
}
print "\n";

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