Shell Programming and Scripting

I know how to create a menu using select and case. What i want to know is,how can i create a menu using select and case where the menu options are in colored text?

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if the menu options are like:

Code:

1) gl35a
2) t2000
3) s531
4) vt99
5) gdjk

I want the numbers (like "1)") in green and the options (like gl35a,t2000 etc) in yellow.

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Code:

$ printf "\033[40;32mGREEN\n\033[m"
GREEN
$ printf "\033[40;33mYELLOW\n\033[m"
YELLOW

Script to generate all colors:

Code:

for foreground in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
        for bold in '' ';1'; do
            for background in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
                color="4$background;3$foreground"
                printf "\033[$color${bold}m $color${bold:-  } \033[m"
            done
            echo
        done
done

Thats nice, can you interactively query the background colour being used and set the foreground to a complimentary colour?

Didn't really get the reply i was looking for?

Code:

#! /usr/bin/ksh
clear
echo;echo;echo
printf "\033[40;32m1) \033[40;33mgl35a\033[m \n"
printf "\033[40;32m2) \033[40;33mt2000\033[m \n"
printf "\033[40;32m3) \033[40;33ms531\033[m \n"
printf "\033[40;32m4) \033[40;33mvt99\033[m \n"
printf "\033[40;32m5) \033[40;33mgdjk\033[m \n"
echo
read user_choice
echo  you chose $user_choice

Aditya

I didn't know how to do this but worked it out from the info posted here, why didn't you when people had taken the trouble to help you?