Changing text colour on console

[warburp]

Hi

I have a series of korn scripts that provide menus for users on the system. I would like to be able to colour some of the text on some of the script options.

Does anyone know the command for this in korn shell? - can't seem to find anything on the web.

Thanks

 

[aigles]

See this FAQ in the awk forum : FAQ271-2920


Jean Pierre.

 

[theotyflos]

On Sco you can do:

:
GREEN=`setcolor green`
RED=`setcolor red`
BLUE_YELLOW=`setcolor blue yellow`
NORM=`setcolor -n`
:
echo "${GREEN}This is Green"
echo "${NORM}Back to Normal"
:

Another way is to hardcode the escape sequences like:

:
ESC='\033'
BLUE="${ESC}[34m"
:
echo "${BLUE}This is blue"
:

but it is valid only for ansi terminals.

or you can use the sgr terminfo or sa termcap entries if they are correctly defined:

:
BLUE=`tput sgr ... ...`
:

 

[SteveR77]

Just to add to the outstanding responses if you need the color code values check this link.

http://www.understudy.net/custom.html#Korn