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Subject: Re: colors in messages
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gs_stoller@juno.com wrote:
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> 	Since I'm asking about  FreeBSD (version 4.3), I'm asking about the  echo ,  print ,  printf , etc. commands, and similar commands ib  PERL ,  awk , etc.
> 	Where can I find the  vt terminal encoding  for this (hopefully on the internet)?
>   

Hi

a simple googlin' for vt100 color codes brings this as first hit:
tp://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm

you can change colors by the escape sequences shown in the link resource.

for example to get red text use:
echo ^[[31m

you can get the escape character by pressing Ctrl-V followed by escape 
in bash and vi and i suppose other environments....