From my previous post, found here, you can see that I have formatted the text to be a specific colour depending on what sort of output I get. So for errors I make the text red and for successful messages I make the text green.
This is easy to implement into BASH scripts and a lot of other formatting can be applied as well. In this post, I will be covering the colorization (probably not a word), underlining, bold text and resetting the changes.
Colour Possibilities:
- 0 – Black
- 1 – Red
- 2 – Green
- 3 – Yellow
- 4 – Blue
- 5 – Magenta
- 6 – Cyan
- 7 – White
$(tput setaf 1)TEXT HERE
Bold Text:
#Starts bold characters $(tput bold)TEXT HERE #Ends bold characters $(tput sgr0)TEXT HERE
I would just like to add here that tput sgr0 removes all formatting and returns text to the default style and colour.
Underlining:
#Starts underlining $(tput smul)TEXT HERE #Ends underlining $(tput rmul)TEXT HERE
Below is a full script which includes all the possible combinations of the examples above, apart from black text.
#!/bin/bash echo " regular bold underline $(tput setaf 1)Text $(tput bold)Text $(tput sgr0)$(tput setaf 1)$(tput smul)Text$(tput rmul) $(tput setaf 2)Text $(tput bold)Text $(tput sgr0)$(tput setaf 2)$(tput smul)Text$(tput rmul) $(tput setaf 3)Text $(tput bold)Text $(tput sgr0)$(tput setaf 3)$(tput smul)Text$(tput rmul) $(tput setaf 4)Text $(tput bold)Text $(tput sgr0)$(tput setaf 4)$(tput smul)Text$(tput rmul) $(tput setaf 5)Text $(tput bold)Text $(tput sgr0)$(tput setaf 5)$(tput smul)Text$(tput rmul) $(tput setaf 6)Text $(tput bold)Text $(tput sgr0)$(tput setaf 6)$(tput smul)Text$(tput rmul) $(tput setaf 7)Text $(tput bold)Text $(tput sgr0)$(tput setaf 7)$(tput smul)Text$(tput rmul) "
I know it looks quite horrible in the source code but this is what the output looks like:
Enjoy!
