Color in shell scripts (not prompts)

Some shell-script macros for adding color to the output of your programs.

 

#!/bin/sh

# ANSI Color -- use these variables to easily have
# different color and format output. Make sure to
# output the reset sequence after colors (f =
# foreground, b = background), and use the 'off'
# feature for anything you turn on.
#
# This function is: Copyright 2004 Dave Taylor
# from book _Wicked_Cool_Shell_Scripts_,
# ISBN 1593270127.
# http://www.intuitive.com/wicked/showscript.cgi?011-colors.sh
initializeANSI() {
    esc=$(printf '\033')

    blackf="${esc}[30m"; redf="${esc}[31m";
    yellowf="${esc}[33m" bluef="${esc}[34m";
    cyanf="${esc}[36m"; whitef="${esc}[37m";
    greenf="${esc}[32m"; purplef="${esc}[35m";

    blackb="${esc}[40m"; redb="${esc}[41m";
    yellowb="${esc}[43m" blueb="${esc}[44m";
    cyanb="${esc}[46m"; whiteb="${esc}[47m";
    greenb="${esc}[42m"; purpleb="${esc}[45m";

    boldon="${esc}[1m"; boldoff="${esc}[22m";
    italicson="${esc}[3m"; italicsoff="${esc}[23m";
    ulon="${esc}[4m"; uloff="${esc}[24m";
    invon="${esc}[7m"; invoff="${esc}[27m";

    reset="${esc}[0m";
}
##
## The rest of the program is:
## Copyright 2007 Hal Canary
## Dedicated to the public domain.
##
initializeANSI
COLORS="red green yellow blue purple cyan white black"
for B in $COLORS; do
    for F in $COLORS; do
        eval FC=\${${F}f}
        eval BC=\${${B}b}
        echo -en "${FC}${BC}${F}f ${B}b${reset} \t"
        echo -en "${boldon}${FC}${BC}${F}f ${B}b bold${reset} \t"
        echo -e "${FC}${BC}${italicson}${F}f ${B}b italics${reset}"
        echo -en "${ulon}${FC}${BC}${F}f ${B}b ul${reset} \t"
        echo -en "${boldon}${ulon}${FC}${BC}${F}f ${B}b bol ul${reset}\t"
        echo -en "${boldon}${ulon}${italicson}${FC}${BC}"
        echo -e "${F}f ${B}b bold ul italics${reset}"
    done
    echo ""
done
exit 0