Colorized Terminal Outputs

Coloring Output

To color your shell script output, you will need to echo out an escape sequence that looks something like \033[$color1;$color2;$stylem.

You can specify one or more colors or styles by delimiting the colors or styles with a semicolon and end the list with a 'm'.

Color is given as:

Color	Foreground	Background
Black	30	40
Red	31	41
Green	32	42
Yellow	33	43
blue	34	44
Magenta	35	45
Cyan	36	46
White	37	47

Style is given by:

Style	Code
Normal	0
Bold	1
Underline	4

Examples

Try these examples by echoing them in a terminal.

To print something as underlined green:

$ echo "\033[33;4mYellow Underlined Text\033[0m"

To print something underlined, red, with a blue background:

$ echo "\033[31;44;4mRed Underlined with a Blue Background Text\033[0m"

To print the above without the underline, just remove the '4' style

$ echo "\033[31;44mRed with a Blue Background Text\033[0m"