Coloring Style Text Using Shell Scripting Color Codes

Using coloring Style Text using Shell Scripting, You can Make your shell scripting out more interesting and attractive. Like error’s warnings on shell scripting will be shown with different colors to grab users attention.

Colored Text

echo -e '3[34;42mColorFull Message3[0m'

Coloring Style Text Using Shell Scripting – Color Codes Table

Color	Background	Foreground
Red	41	31
Black	40	30
Green	42	32
Blue	44	34
Yellow	43	33
Magenta	45	35
Cyan	46	36
white	47	37

Let’s see some color combination examples

Changing text Style in shell script

Style	Number
Plain	0
Bold	1
Low Intensity	2
Underline	4
Blinking	5
Reverse	7
Invisible	8

[user@rhel7 ~]$ cat color.sh
#!/bin/bash
## Colors in Bash programming
echo -e "3[5;31;40mhttps://arkit.co.in3[0m"

Using above color code in shell script. Text will blink continuously background is black color and text in red color. you can also format your text coloring by assigning the color code to variables like shown below.

#/bin/bash
## Coloring style Text shell script
COLOR="3[4;34;37m"
NONE="3[0m"
echo -e $COLOR"Message Or Command Output"$NONE

You can use multiple combination from above mentioned table while writing shell scripts.

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