How to change the output color of echo in Linux

大纲
1、The Bash Shell
2、Output in Color
3、How can do it?

1、The Bash Shell Bash is the primary shell of the Linux machine, included here are some tips/tricks with the shell. Use the manual page and learn about PS1, PS2 and PROMPT_COMMAND. The tricks in here can be use in ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc.
2、Output in Color Cool terminal output involves color, here is how to set and reset output colors using terminal control characters. To print in color one must first send the control sequences for the color to the terminal, then output the message and reset the terminal, to be nice. One can also create nifty looking prompts with the teniques described here.Console Color Table The below key describes all the different sequences that can be sent to change the display format. The disclaimer should be made that "this is how the test computer performed".

Style           Foreground      Background
1st Digit       2nd Digit       3rd Digit
0 - Reset       30 - Black      40 - Black
1 - FG Bright   31 - Red        41 - Red
2 - Unknown     32 - Green      42 - Green
3 - Unknown     33 - Yellow     43 - Yellow
4 - Underline   34 - Blue       44 - Blue
5 - BG Bright   35 - Magenta    45 - Magenta
6 - Unknown     36 - Cyan       46 - Cyan
7 - Reverse     37 - White      47 - White

To instruct

echo

to interpret these codes you must tell it

-en

. The

-e

switch tells echo to interpret your escape sequences and

-n

tells echo not to make a newline at the end. The activation sequence is

\033 or \e

this starts the output modification codes. Next is a

[

followed by a digits from the above list to represent the style, foreground and background. The sequence is terminated by the letter m. The sequence to get plain red on black would look like this:

echo -en "\033[0;31;40m"

or once could say

echo -en "\033[0;31m"

to only affect the foreground. Portions of the sequence can be left out but the digits are still interpreted in the same order. One can switch only the background by saying

echo -en "\033[7;43m"

, this would change the background to yellow without affecting the current foreground settings. Once output is complete the terminal should be reset with

echo -e "\033[0m"

.
Echo in Color Test Script
The code below is a sample of echo in color, it will run through all the sequences and ouput some nice looking tables. This can be use to test what different colors will look like as well as show the hidious combinations.

#/bin/bash
# Show all the colors of the rainbow, should be run under bash
for STYLE in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
for FG in 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37; do
for BG in 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47; do
CTRL="\033[${STYLE};${FG};${BG}m"
echo -en "${CTRL}"
echo -n "${STYLE};${FG};${BG}"
echo -en "\033[0m"
done
echo
done
echo
done
# Reset
echo -e "\033[0m"

3、How can do it?You can use these codes:

Black        0;30     Dark Gray     1;30
Blue         0;34     Light Blue    1;34
Green        0;32     Light Green   1;32
Cyan         0;36     Light Cyan    1;36
Red          0;31     Light Red     1;31
Purple       0;35     Light Purple  1;35
Brown/Orange 0;33     Yellow        1;33
Light Gray   0;37     White         1;37

And then use them like this in your script:

red='\e[0;31m'
NC='\e[0m' # No Color
echo -e "${red}Hello Stackoverflow${NC}"

Q:Doesn't work for me -- output: \e[0;31mHello world\e[m A: Did you try it with "-e"? It tells echo to enable backslash escapes.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt http://blog.chinaunix.net/uid-1835840-id-2831465.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5947742/how-to-change-the-output-color-of-echo-in-linux http://www.cnblogs.com/lr-ting/archive/2013/02/28/2936792.html