ColorEchoForShell

Make echo colorful with easier method. In bash, sh, fish, ksh and zsh.

Installation

• Download the script, choice the once for your shell by its extension in the filename.

• For example dist/ColorEcho.bash for bash.

• Add a line to include the script in your shell rc or run it directly: . ./ColorEcho.bash

Usage

• echo.StyleColor (if you are using ksh/sh, there is no . dot symbol)

Examples

• echo.Cyan
• echo.ULCyan
• echo.LightCyan
• echo.BoldCyan
• echo.BoldULCyan

Supported styles

• Bold as Bold
• Light as Light
• Underline as UL

Supported colors

• See color table

Notes

• If you have lolcat, you can also try echo.Rainbow.
• If you are using Mac OS, please upgrade your bash first, you can use Homebrew or MacPorts, the origin bash is too old.
• sh shell's color echo relys on external /bin/echo, it may not work properly with color under BSD and Mac OS.

Screenshot

Demo

Author

Peter Dave Hello, @Twitter, @GitHub