How to get output word in color

[sky_knight02]

I want to get `echo xxx` output in color, what I have to do for that?

[vsemaska]

You have to prefix the output with the 'escape sequence' that'll turn on the color and then postfix with the escape sequence' to turn the color off. For example, to print in blue:

_esc="\033"
_blue="${_esc}[34m"
_off="${_esc}[0m"
echo "${_blue}xxx${_off}"

Here's a link with the escape sequences:
ANSI color codes

[sky_knight02]

Thanks for the quick reply.........

but for me your command dosnt work but when i used echo -en "yourcommand" it worked perfectly

any way thanks alot i got wat i want....

[sky_knight02]

can you pls explain me wat is the \033?

[vsemaska]

Sorry, forgot the -e option. That option does this:

-e enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped characters listed below

In this case:

\NNN the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal)

033 is the octal value of the escape character.

[Inbhir Pheofharain]

You could also do:

echo -e '\E[37mYour text here' ; tput sgr0

the ending resets the screen to original colours

Change the ANSI codes to suit.

[sky_knight02]

thanks for the reply........

[Inbhir Pheofharain]

You're most welcome