Colorizing text

Question

How can I show text in color with Bash?

• a: white text on brown background
• b: black text on yellow background

Answer 1

# text
black='\e[0;30m'
white='\e[0;37m'
yellow='\e[0;33m'

# background
white_bg='\e[47m'

echo -e "${black}black test"
echo -e "${white_bg}white bg and black test"
echo -e "${yellow}yellow test"

Answer 2

You can provide some colors like these in your ~/.bashrc

txtblk='\e[0;30m' # Black - Regular
txtred='\e[0;31m' # Red
txtgrn='\e[0;32m' # Green
txtylw='\e[0;33m' # Yellow
txtblu='\e[0;34m' # Blue
txtpur='\e[0;35m' # Purple
txtcyn='\e[0;36m' # Cyan
txtwht='\e[0;37m' # White

Afterwards you can use echo:

echo -e "${txtred}asd${txtwht}"

Here you can find more colors.