Changing text colour in bash

detatchedd · #1 (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

I am doing a basic script to check if services are disabled, and I was wondering how to change to colours for PASS and FAIL to green & red respectively.

Code:


#!/usr/bin/bash

clear


TELNET=`svcs -a | grep telnet | awk '{print $1}'`

if [ "$TELNET" == "disabled" ]
then
        RESULT=PASS
else
    RESULT=FAIL
fi
echo -e "Verifying if Telnet services are disabled                [$RESULT]"


FTP=`svcs -a | grep ftp | awk '{print $1}'`

if [ "$FTP" == "disabled" ]
then
    RESULT2=PASS
else
    RESULT2=FAIL

fi
echo "Verifying if FTP services are disabled                    [$RESULT2]"

TonyLawrence · #2 (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

Use "tput"

tput setaf 2
echo Green
tput setaf 1
echo Red
tput setaf 7
echo normal

See man tput and the "Color Handling" section of "man terminfo"

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Oh, and by the way:

I wouldn't do that unless you are the only one to use the script.

Color is tricky. Displays can be bad at it, people can be color blind...

I might do this:

Code:

echo "`tput setaf 1` **** `tput setaf 7` FAIL  `tput setaf 1` *** `tput setaf 7`"

which leaves FAIL in white.

But even at that you have to be trickier. This would be awful on a white background - "FAIL" would be invisible.

I honestly don't like colors for scripts.

cfajohnson · #3 (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by TonyLawrence

Use "tput"

tput setaf 2

That doesn't work on at least one of the systems I use. There are two different versions of tput. One uses termcap, the other terminfo. They are not compatible.

On the other hand, the ISO 6429 standard (also known as ECMA-48, and formerly known as ANSI X3.64), is ubiquitous, and terminals that do not support it are few and far between.
Code:
green=$(printf "\033[32m")
normal=$(printf "\033[m")

Quote:

I honestly don't like colors for scripts.

Generally, I agree with you, but there are times when it is useful.

TonyLawrence · #4 (**permalink**) 1 Week Ago

Yeah, I tend to forget that nobody thinks of or uses anything but Ansi nowadays :-)

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