Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:10:34 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Valeri Vassiliev <valeri.ufo@gmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: motd in color Message-ID: <41C8D79A.4000203@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <b18f7e5c041221170448a992ec@mail.gmail.com> References: <b18f7e5c041221170448a992ec@mail.gmail.com>
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Valeri Vassiliev wrote: [ ... ] > hi, want to to know if its possible to colorize the /etc/motd with > escape sequences, if yes how ? If you are willing assume the user is always going to be on a certain terminal type which supports color, yes, you can certainly add the terminal-specific ESC sequences to /etc/motd via an editor which supports binary input (emacs has a hex mode for this, for example). It's probably not a great idea, though. I'd be more tempted to write a C program which queried TERMCAP or use curses to deal with color properly if I thought it was worth the effort in the first place, although some shells (zsh, maybe bash) also have decent support for color in their scripts. -- -Chuck
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