Re: How to print colored text to a linux terminal?

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Date: 06/03/04

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    > On a sunny day (Wed, 02 Jun 2004 19:55:55 +0000) it happened seesawman@163.com
    > wrote in <40BE30CB.5692A265@163.com>:
    >
    >
    >>Could anyone tell me how i can print colored text to a linux text-mode
    >>terminal, just like ls command does.
    >
    > This makes use of the ANSI sequences
    >
    > Try this for example:
    > char *text;
    > int color;
    > printf("\33[01;%dm%s\33[00m", color, text);/* \33 is escape */
    >
    > For the colors do some searching in www.google.com perhaps.
    > JP

    It will work, but it is better to use terminfo or termcap database
    rather than escape codes. It will problems on other terminals. Of course
      for small programs it isn't so important.

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