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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash - changing a color of a substring Post 302597712 by Scrutinizer on Saturday 11th of February 2012 04:13:22 PM
Old 02-11-2012
Or for example, just put the sequences in variables and use those in the format part of printf.
Code:
$ BLUE="\e[0;34m"
$ GREEN="\e[0;32m"
$ RED="\e[0;31m"
$ NOCOLOR="\e[0m"
$ printf "%s $BLUE%s $RED%s $GREEN%s $NOCOLOR\n" HELLO BLUE RED GREEN
HELLO BLUE RED GREEN

ANSI escape sequences:

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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