ColorEchoForShell

Make echo colorful with easier method. In bash, sh, fish, ksh and zsh. Which can help you print debug, warning, error message in shell scripts with meaningful colors, and make the output more readable.

Please note that certain colors will really depend on the environment, different terminal may have different behavior, terminal multiplexer like tmux could also affect the result, especially those color not coded in range 0~7, might have unexpected result with styling. My demo is under a terminal called Terminator, you can simply install it via apt, yum, pkg or other package manager. Actually, all the colors display depend on the environment setting, but I just name/define name by the most common cases I know by far.

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• Supported shells
• Supported styles
• Supported colors
• Notes
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• Demo
• Author

Installation

• Download the script, choice the one for your shell by its extension in the filename.
  • For example dist/ColorEcho.bash for bash.
• Add a line to include the script in your shell rc or run it directly:

. ./ColorEcho.bash

Usage

• echo.StyleColor (if you are using ksh/sh, there is no . dot symbol), you can combine at most two styles together, the order of the style doesn't matter.

Examples

• echo.Cyan
• echo.ICyan
• echo.ULCyan
• echo.BLCyan
• echo.STCyan
• echo.BoldCyan
• echo.BoldULCyan
• echo.ULBoldCyan

Supported shells

• Bourne shell (sh)
• Bourne-Again shell (bash)
• Z shell (Zsh)
• Korn shell (ksh)
• Friendly interactive shell (fish)

Supported styles

• Bold as Bold
• Italic as I
• Underline as UL
• Blink as BL
• Strikethrough as ST

Supported colors

• See color table

• For the standard color(coded in range 0~7), it'll has a light version of the color, just use the Light keyword before the color, for example: LightYellow.

Notes

• If you have lolcat, you can also try echo.Rainbow.

Screenshot

Demo

License

GPL-2.0 (GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2)

Author

Peter Dave Hello, @Twitter, @GitHub