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How to print color text in AIX?

Hi
I'd like to print color text and I've tried this:

Code:

echo "\033[0;31mHI\033[m"

but it didn't woked. When I changed 0 --> 1/4/5, the text "HI" --> bold/underline/blink, but when I changed 31 or 33 to other values, the color didn't change.

What's the problem. Need to install something ???

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Hello bobochacha,

I don't have AIX box with me but could you please try as follows and let me know if this helps.

Code:

 echo -e "\033[0;31mHI\033[m"

We need to add -e option with echo as it will enable interpretation of backslash escapes.

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Why don't you use printf which behaves consistently across systems (which echo does not do reliably)?

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Originally Posted by RavinderSingh13

Hello bobochacha,

I don't have AIX box with me but could you please try as follows and let me know if this helps.

Code:

 echo -e "\033[0;31mHI\033[m"

We need to add -e option with echo as it will enable interpretation of backslash escapes.

Thanks,
R. Singh

Wrong answer. It's AIX, not Linux.

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Originally Posted by bobochacha29

Hi
I'd like to print color text and I've tried this:

Code:

echo "\033[0;31mHI\033[m"

but it didn't woked. When I changed 0 --> 1/4/5, the text "HI" --> bold/underline/blink, but when I changed 31 or 33 to other values, the color didn't change.

What's the problem. Need to install something ???

The problem is your terminal. What you want to do, works well on any ANSI-capable terminal. E.g. in my xterm it works. But if you have some dumb terminal, or dtterm (I think - didn't check) this ANSI sequence will not work. If you want to use portable sequences, you have to consult termcap database, what it can provide to you, using infocmp and you can use tput command to make text bold, underline and so on.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RavinderSingh13

Hello bobochacha,

I don't have AIX box with me but could you please try as follows and let me know if this helps.

Code:

 echo -e "\033[0;31mHI\033[m"

We need to add -e option with echo as it will enable interpretation of backslash escapes.

Thanks,
R. Singh

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Why don't you use printf which behaves consistently across systems (which echo does not do reliably)?

Thank for your helps. but nothing worked

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The problem is your terminal. What you want to do, works well on any ANSI-capable terminal. E.g. in my xterm it works. But if you have some dumb terminal, or dtterm (I think - didn't check) this ANSI sequence will not work. If you want to use portable sequences, you have to consult termcap database, what it can provide to you, using infocmp and you can use tput command to make text bold, underline and so on.

Yeah, I tried using mobaxterm and it worked

. It seems that securecrt doesn't support this.

Found "xterm" in securecrt, now it's OK. Thanks guy

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Hi Bobochacha,

can you please tell me how did you solve this issue with mobaxterm? I have also installed mobaxterm but I dont know how to change the colours of the terminal.

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Hi Bobochacha,

can you please tell me how did you solve this issue with mobaxterm? I have also installed mobaxterm but I dont know how to change the colours of the terminal.

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I didn't do anything with mobaxterm, just installed and used.
In securecrt, I changed terminal from vt100 --> xterm ( Option / Session Option / Emulation ) and enable the ANSI color option

Hope it helps

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