RE: csh color codes

["Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam at online dot no>]

>
> I am running the latest Cygwin on my Win2k and I'm using csh as
> the standard shell. The color mode for XTerm is enabled and
> works fine, e.g.  with "ls --color".
>
> However I have a problem to figure out how to generate the
> appropriate control (escape) sequences to included colors in
> shell script outputs. I have some shell scripts here which
> originate from a HP-UX based csh.  There, the escape sequences
> are generated by pressing "Ctrl + V" + "Esc" + "[" + 'code',
> where 'code' is e.g. "1m" for bold or "32m" for green (=
> ^[[32m).  However, these codes don't work within the Cygwin-csh.
>
> Does anyone know the correct sequences here?

Why not use printf and \033 for the escape character?  The
following prints "xxx yyy zzz" where "yyy" is green:

    printf 'xxx \033[32myyy\033[m zzz'

Here is a list showing other escape sequences

    # foreground colours
    printf '\033[30m black \033[m'
    printf '\033[31m red \033[m'
    printf '\033[32m green \033[m'
    printf '\033[33m yellow \033[m'
    printf '\033[34m blue \033[m'
    printf '\033[35m magenta \033[m'
    printf '\033[36m cyan \033[m'
    printf '\033[37m white \033[m'

    # background colours
    printf '\033[40m black \033[m'
    printf '\033[41m red \033[m'
    printf '\033[42m green \033[m'
    printf '\033[43m yellow \033[m'
    printf '\033[44m blue \033[m'
    printf '\033[45m magenta \033[m'
    printf '\033[46m cyan \033[m'
    printf '\033[47m white \033[m'

    # other
    printf '\033[0m default \033[m'
    printf '\033[1m bold \033[m'
    printf '\033[2m faint \033[m'
    printf '\033[3m italic \033[m'
    printf '\033[4m underlined \033[m'
    printf '\033[5m slowblink \033[m'
    printf '\033[6m rapidblink \033[m'
    printf '\033[7m negative \033[m'

Peter

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Peter J. Acklam - pjacklam@online.no - http://home.online.no/~pjacklam


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