Assuming your terminal supports ANSI colors, it is quite easy. You just need to add certain echo statements to achieve certain colors.
The syntax is: echo "^[[#m<text>"
Where the the "^[" character is produced by hitting ctrl-v and then escape and # is substituted with a number depending on the effect you want the second "[" and the "m" are literal characters. Here's an excerpt from some C code listing the various colors (because I'm too lazy to retype it in a different format):
You can combine the modes, so to print the word "hello" in yellow text on a blue background and then return to normal you would use:
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Please can someone help me how I can read a CSV file with 10 columns and remove the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th column and build the new output file. Script to be done in Korn shell.
File contains data like bnt, lb2, lb3, vnw, lb4, lb5, bst, lb6, lb7, vgw (multiple rows)
Output file should... (2 Replies)
I have only slight difference between remarks (gray) and code (black)
using c and c++ how cani change remark to other color ?
The option preferences/language mode/c++ doesn't help (0 Replies)
I am writing a script to keep check on free disk space, and I would like to find a way to parse $LINE (see code below) into a numeric value (for free disk space percentage) and a string value (for mount point). If possible, I would like to avoid sed or any additional use of awk since I am not very... (7 Replies)
OK so I've been trying to figure this out on and off for about two years on Solaris 8, and now I'm trying to do it in Solaris 10 (which seem to have identical resource structures for Dtwm.)
I've created my own sleek, single row front panel with small custom icons, and smaller font so that it's... (1 Reply)
For a long time, when I type man anything on my Mac, both the manpage header fonts and the background was black, so I had to use my mouse to highlight the manpage output to read it. It was really annoying.
The problem was the same both locally or using the terminal and going ssh somewhere.
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I am new in shell bash script>
I have two text files.They contain same datas.
I want to change some text in two files.If I changed in one file.Then I want to change another same file without using vieditor.Iwant to change another file by using shell script
for example
file1
hello
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I am using GNU unix. And running a bash shell. Can anyone please tell me what is the command for changing the color of the compiler error/warning messages on the console. I think it is in .bashrc and do not know how.
Thanks
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I am using GNU unix. And running a bash shell. Can anyone please tell me what is the command for changing the color of the compiler error/warning messages on the console. I think it is in .bashrc and do not know how.
Thanks
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Hi this is my first post, so forgive me if what I'm requesting doesn't make sense.
I'm connecting into a Unix server via SSH and using a Korn Shell (#!/bin/ksh). The Unix server has Oracle 11g installed on it and there are a number of scripts already setup to query the Oracle database to perform... (2 Replies)
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I want to design a script that will call an existing menu script and select options one by one and redirict the out put to a file.
For example;-
In the script MENU.sh there are 10 options i want to design a script MENU2.sh that will select option 2 3 4 6 7 10 and redirict the output... (4 Replies)