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Old 06-21-2011
font color in script
i am using ubuntu 11.04 and i just finished writing a shell script but i was wanting to know if their is a way to change the font color of just one sentence?
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Old 06-21-2011
ANSI color codes?

echo -e '\033[0;31mhello' will make red for example.

have a look at ASCII Table - ANSI Escape sequences

\033 is ESC in octal. End with 0m to return to normal


mute@geek:~/test$ echo -e '\033[0;31mred\033[0;32mgreen\033[0;34mblue\033[0mnormal'
redgreenbluenormal
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Old 06-22-2011
thanks for the help! it worked!
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