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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Font Color
. 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.