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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Echo a colored text with tabs Post 302946873 by bakunin on Saturday 13th of June 2015 06:11:17 AM
Old 06-13-2015
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Originally Posted by Don Cragun
And, of course how your terminal or terminal emulator responds to those escape sequences can't be determined from the information you have provided. (But, on many terminals that recognize ANSI terminal escape sequences, it will produce red text).
It might be worth a try to query the termcap database (or its replacement terminfo, whatever there is) prior to using escape sequences. For instance:

Code:
typeset UnderOn="$(tput sgr 0 1)"    # turn off standout, turn on underline
typeset UnderOff="$(tput sgr 0 0)"   # turn off standout, turn off underline

print - "normal Text ${UnderOn}underlined part${UnderOff} normal again"

I hope this helps.

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COLORS(3)						   libbash colors Library Manual						 COLORS(3)

NAME
colors -- libbash library for setting tty colors. SYNOPSIS
colorSet <color> colorReset colorPrint [<indent>] <color> <text> colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> <text> DESCRIPTION
General colors is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored text on tty. The function list: colorSet Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal colorPrint Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by INDENT (without adding a newline) colorPrintN The same as colorPrint, but trailing newline is added Detailed interface description follows. Available colors: Green Red Yellow White The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all the other forms are valid and are the same as Red). FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
colorSet <color> Sets the current printing color to color. colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal. colorPrint [<indent>] <color> Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a newline). Parameters: <indent> The column to move to before start printing. This parameter is optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position. <color> The color to use. <color> The text to print. colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added. EXAMPLES
Printing a green 'Hello World' with a newline: Using colorSet: $ colorSet green $ echo 'Hello World' $ colorReset Using colorPrint: $ colorPrint 'Hello World'; echo Using colorPrintN: $ colorPrintN 'Hello World' AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com> Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net> SEE ALSO
ldbash(1), libbash(1) Linux Epoch Linux
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