Robby75
Reputation: 3455
colors in dash (not bash)
In bash, you can colorize output with (for example)
echo -e "\e[34mblue text\e[0m"
But that does not work with dash.
Is there a way to get colored output with dash?
Upvotes: 3
Views: 1144
Answers (1)
Cyrus
Reputation: 88583
With dash, bash, ksh, fish and zsh:
printf '%b' "\033[34;1mblue text\033[0m\n"
Upvotes: 6
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