Color Output

Colorized Output In Bash

• Using ANSI escape codes you can make your terminal display colored output

Color	Code	Color	Code
Black	'\033[0;30m'	Dark Gray	'\033[1;30m'
Red	'\033[0;31m'	Light Red	'\033[1;31m'
Green	'\033[0;32m'	Light Green	'\033[1;32m'
Brown/Orange	'\033[0;33m'	Yellow	'\033[1;33m'
Blue	'\033[0;34m'	Light Blue	'\033[1;34m'
Purple	'\033[0;35m'	Light Purple	'\033[1;35m'
Cyan	'\033[0;36m'	Light Cyan	'\033[1;36m'
Light Gray	'\033[0;37m'	White	'\033[1;37m'

• RED='\033[0;31m'
• 30-37 sets foreground color
• 40-47 sets background color

RED='\033[0;31m'
NC='\033[0m'

echo -e "${LRED}Hard${NC} [1]   ${RED}Difficult${NC} [2]   ${YELLOW}Normal${NC} [3]   ${GREEN}Mild${NC} [4]   ${LGREEN}Easy${NC} [5]"

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