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01-09-2019

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Hi Guys,

Just for reference, here is a little shell script that I sometimes use to check whats available if I want to use colo(u)r.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
##################################################################################
#
# Test script to show the available colours on a monitor, this allows the generation
# of highlighted output from ordinary shell scripts - to be integrated with the
# logger shell to make pretty output.
#
##################################################################################

T='XXX'   # The test text

echo -e "\n                 40m     41m     42m     43m\
     44m     45m     46m     47m";

for FGs in '    m' '   1m' '  30m' '1;30m' '  31m' '1;31m' '  32m' \
           '1;32m' '  33m' '1;33m' '  34m' '1;34m' '  35m' '1;35m' \
           '  36m' '1;36m' '  37m' '1;37m';
  do FG=${FGs// /}
  echo -en " $FGs \033[$FG  $T  "
  for BG in 40m 41m 42m 43m 44m 45m 46m 47m;
    do echo -en "$EINS \033[$FG\033[$BG  $T  \033[0m";
  done
  echo;
done

Feel free to use;

Regards

Gull04

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colormake

colormake(1)						      General Commands Manual						      colormake(1)

NAME

       colormake - color wrapper for make(1)

SYNOPSIS

       colormake [ --short ] ...

DESCRIPTION

       colormake acts as a wrapper around make(1) to ease reading the output by colorizing it.

OPTIONS

       The --short option instructs colormake to truncate lines so they do not wrap.  All other options will be passed unmodified to make(1).

USAGE

       To change a makefile to use colormake, you may change the path at the top which normally reads #!/usr/bin/make to #!/usr/bin/colormake.

       Alternately, you may type colormake whenever you would normally type make when compiling programs.

       Colormake  is  also  available  using  the alternate names which enable piping through less (clmake), truncated output so lines do not wrap
       (colormake-short), or both (clmake-short).

FILES

       The configuration files are Perl scripts included by colormake.pl.  The defaults values are (from colormake.pl itself):
       # Some useful color codes, see end of file for more.
       #
       $col_black =	   "33[30m";
       $col_red =	   "33[31m";
       $col_green =	   "33[32m";
       $col_yellow =	   "33[33m";
       $col_blue =	   "33[34m";
       $col_magenta =	   "33[35m";
       $col_cyan =	   "33[36m";
       $col_ltgray =	   "33[37m";

       $col_norm =	   "33[00m";
       $col_background =   "33[07m";
       $col_brighten =	   "33[01m";
       $col_underline =    "33[04m";
       $col_blink =	   "33[05m";

       # Customize colors here...
       #
       $col_default =	   $col_ltgray;
       $col_gcc =	   $col_magenta . $col_brighten;
       $col_make =	   $col_cyan;
       $col_filename =	   $col_yellow;
       $col_linenum =	   $col_cyan;
       $col_trace =	   $col_yellow;
       $col_warning =	   $col_green;
       $tag_error =	   "";
       $col_error =	   $tag_error . $col_yellow . $col_brighten;
       $error_highlight =  $col_brighten;

       For use with gnome-terminal I have the following configuration in my $HOME/.colormakerc file:
       $col_default =	   $col_black;
       $col_gcc =	   $col_magenta;
       $col_filename =	   $col_blue;
       $col_linenum =	   $col_cyan;
       $col_error =	   $tag_error . $col_red . $col_brighten;

       /usr/share/colormake/colormake.rc
	      System-wide configuration file for colormake.

       $HOME/.colormakerc
	      Personal configuration file for colormake.

HISTORY

       /usr/bin/colormake was formerly named /usr/bin/cmake but had to be renamed because of a name clash.

AUTHORS

       Bjarni R. Einarsson is the author of colormake.

       This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       This manual page was written by Joe Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net> and updated by Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@debian.org>, for the  Debian
       GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       make(1), clmake(1)

								  July 2nd, 2001						      colormake(1)