colourful or bold shell prompt or echoes

[daFranze]

Anybody out there, who knows how to switch echos or prompt to other colours/bold font?

I used to work with Solaris/xterm/tcsh for a verly long time, now I switched to hpux/xterm/(posix-)sh. I am missing a simple way in getting eg. bold prompt, or a echo from a script eg. errors in red, warning in yellow...

Guessing it is not a problem of my xterm, since when I login to a Red Hat 9 Linux machine with bash I see executables coloured in green in the ll output.

I investigated a little bit and found some hints

colour setting on dt/hpterminals
   green="\033[32m" # switch green on
   bold="\033[1m" # bold
   yellow="\033[33m" # switch yellow on
   red="\033[31m" # red
   blue="\033[34m" # red
   normal="\033[m" # normal; switch color/bold off
   stat="\033[71G" # write at pos 71 (status)

but I don't know how to use this...

Best Regards, Franz
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UNIX System Manager from Munich, Germany

 

[daFranze]

I read some more articles, guessing this does not work with posix shell but with bash...

Best Regards, Franz
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UNIX System Manager from Munich, Germany

 

[yai]

echo "\033[1m" # makes the following output bold
echo "\033[22m # switches bold off
tput bold # bold on
tput rmso # bold off

tput smul # underline on
tput rmul # underline off

tput rev # reverse on
tput rmso # reverse off

see the manpages for: tput, terminfo, tic, untic