change color of text in shell

[unlazyfree]

Is there a way to change the color of the font to neon green?

[balding_parrot]

Is there a way to change the color of the font to neon green?

For someone who is unlazyfree you sure didn't do much searching, did you ?

have a looksee here

[unlazyfree]

For someone who is unlazyfree you sure didn't do much searching, did you ?

have a looksee here

from what I read in there, it only would change the color of the bt ~#, not the entire text. I wanna keep the color of the bt ~# and change the output text color

[balding_parrot]

The colourful pic at the top of the page and the script at the bottom seem to indicate otherwise.

Text Properties

As previously mentioned, the '0' after the first escape sequence is the default color setting for the text of the shell prompt. For the text properties the following values make sense: 0, 1, 22, 4, 24, 5, 25, 7, 27 with the following meaning: default, bold, not bold, underlined, not underlined, blinking and not blinking, invers, not invers.

With the help of the following short script we can have a look at the color combinations.

#!/bin/sh
############################################################
# Nico Golde <nico(at)ngolde.de> Homepage: http://www.ngolde.de
# Last change: Mon Feb 16 16:24:41 CET 2004
############################################################

for attr in 0 1 4 5 7 ; do
    echo "----------------------------------------------------------------"
    printf "ESC[%s;Foreground;Background - \n" $attr
    for fore in 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37; do
        for back in 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47; do
            printf '\033[%s;%s;%sm %02s;%02s  ' $attr $fore $back $fore $back
        done
    printf '\n'
    done
    printf '\033[0m'
done

[operatorone]

I hadn't even cared much about this but thanks to you parrot I played with it for a good 20 minutes. :P Seems to work as described.

[balding_parrot]

I hadn't even cared much about this but thanks to you parrot I played with it for a good 20 minutes. :P Seems to work as described.

Don't blame me my input to this was 15 seconds to find the page to answer the original posters question and another 20 seconds creating the post.