Bash scripting question for Debian 3.1 2

[MichealC4]

I'm trying to get the following to work: echo -e '\e[32m\e[05mSuccess\033[0m'

It outputs okay, but the 05m attribute doesn't act as expected, it instead surrounds the text in a gray background.

I hoped in to a couple of IRC channels one person got it working just fine in Gentoo, so I'm wondering if it is something off by default in Debian or something lacking, or whatnot.

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[TonyGroves]

On my Debian 3.1 xterm, in Fluxbox, it produces a flashing green Success message.

 

[plamb]

looks like it depends what TERM usr are using, when I invoked a xterm it worked (flashing green Sucess) the default FC4 justa grenn Success no flash

 

[Annihilannic]

A more portable solution is to use tput attribute commands which will echo the correct escape sequences for the current terminal setting, or none at all if it believes the terminal does not have the capability to display colour. See man terminfo for the list of attributes ("setaf", "setf", "sgr0", etc.).

Annihilannic.

 

[MichealC4]

Thanks!

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