On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:25:45PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > been wanting to know how to print fancy colors in shell scripts for about as > long as I've seen Linux in use. > I finally spent the time to figure it out. :) > mind you, this is bash 2.05; not guaranteed to work anything like the same > way, anywhere else. I think the coloring of text is influenced more by the way your tty (xterm, aterm, eterm, rxvt ...) is set up than the particular shell you're using. > here's an example script: <snip> Thanks for sharing this. Could come in handy some day. Joel