PeterBot/ColorEchoForShell

Make 🐚 shell's echo colorful easily ✨ Support sh, bash, zsh, ksh & fish 🐟.

ColorEchoForShell

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

Please note that certain colors will really depond on the environment, my demo is under a terminal called Terminator, you can simply install it via apt, yum, pkg or other package manager. Actually, all the colors display depend on the environment setting, but I just name/define name by the most common cases I know by far.

MENU

• MENU
• Installation
• Usage
• Examples
• Supported shells
• Supported styles
• Supported colors
• Notes
• Screenshot
• Demo
• Author

Installation

• Download the script, choice the one 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 shells

• Bourne shell (sh)
• Bourne-Again shell (bash)
• Z shell (Zsh)
• Korn shell (ksh)
• Friendly interactive shell (fish)

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.
• ksh/sh shell's color echo may rely on external /bin/echo, it may not work properly with color under BSD and Mac OS.

Screenshot

Demo

License

GPL-2.0 (GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2)

Author

Peter Dave Hello, @Twitter, @GitHub