Date: 18 Feb 2000 21:32:27 +0100 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: echo and ANSI sequences? Message-ID: <88ka8r$26cf$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <2605.000218@xs4all.nl>
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In article <2605.000218@xs4all.nl>, <rene@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Echo, however, doesn't wanna play. I suspect the parsing of \e
> doesnt become a 1-byte ESC-character :((
Indeed. Use printf(1).
> case $1 in
> (b | black | B | BLACK)
> echo \e[0m\]
Even if echo(1) did what you want, you'd need to quote that string
to protect it from interpretation by the shell.
printf '\033[0m]'
You might also want to investigate how to do this in a terminal-independent
fashion with tput(1).
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de
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