pixelchaos.net » Bash http://www.pixelchaos.net random bits for your terminal Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:38:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 show_colors.sh http://www.pixelchaos.net/2007/06/22/show_colors/ http://www.pixelchaos.net/2007/06/22/show_colors/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:42:27 +0000 jcl http://www.pixelchaos.net/index.php/archives/13 A handy little script to output all possible foreground and background ANSI colors to a terminal, complete with their codes for building nice looking terminal prompts.

Enjoy :-)


#!/bin/bash
#
# This file echoes a bunch of color codes to the
# terminal to demonstrate what's available. Each
# line is the color code of one forground color,
# out of 17 (default + 16 escapes), followed by a
# test use of that color on all nine background
# colors (default + 8 escapes).
#

T='gYw' # The test text

echo -e "\n 40m 41m 42m 43m\
44m 45m 46m 47m";

for FGs in ' m' ' 1m' ' 30m' '1;30m' ' 31m' '1;31m' ' 32m' \
'1;32m' ' 33m' '1;33m' ' 34m' '1;34m' ' 35m' '1;35m' \
' 36m' '1;36m' ' 37m' '1;37m';
do FG=${FGs// /}
echo -en " $FGs \033[$FG $T "
for BG in 40m 41m 42m 43m 44m 45m 46m 47m;
do echo -en "$EINS \033[$FG\033[$BG $T \033[0m";
done
echo;
done
echo

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