Colors in Ansi-Shells

Colors are produced bei simply echoing the following code before the colorized text. Works also in Console-Programs (Ansi C, Java, …)

All colors build with the same sheme:

\033[X;Ym

While \033 indicates the Ansi-Code for „Color“, X = {0, 1, 4, 5} and Y = {30, …, 37, 40, … , 47} could be taking from following table:

• 0 to restore default color
• 1 for brighter colors
• 4 for underlined text
• 5 for flashing text

• 30 for black foreground
• 31 for red (or light red)foreground
• 32 for green (or light green) foreground
• 33 for yellow (or brown) foreground
• 34 for blue (or light blue) foreground
• 35 for purple foreground
• 36 for cyan foreground
• 37 for white (or gray) foreground

• 40 for black background
• 41 for red background
• 42 for green background
• 43 for yellow (or brown) background
• 44 for blue background
• 45 for purple background
• 46 for cyan background
• 47 for white (or gray) background

To restore the original terminal color use \033[00m