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Created January 16, 2014 06:12
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A simple test script to display colors available as ANSI escape sequences - both foreground and background.
#!/bin/bash
#
# This is slightly altered from the original which is found here:
# http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x329.html
#
# Each line is the color code of one foreground color, out of 17
# (default + 16 escapes), followed by a test use of that color
# on all nine background colors (default + 8 escapes).
#
text="xYz"; # Some test text
echo -e "\n 40m 41m 42m 43m 44m 45m 46m 47m";
for FGs in ' m' ' 1m' ' 30m' '1;30m' ' 31m' '1;31m' ' 32m' \
'1;32m' ' 33m' '1;33m' ' 34m' '1;34m' ' 35m' '1;35m' \
' 36m' '1;36m' ' 37m' '1;37m'; do
FG=${FGs// /}
echo -en " $FGs \033[$FG ${text} ";
for BG in 40m 41m 42m 43m 44m 45m 46m 47m; do
echo -en "$EINS \033[$FG\033[${BG} ${text} \033[0m";
done
echo;
done
echo;
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nice!

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