colors

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Version: 357117 (ubuntu - 24/10/10)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)


BSD mandoc

NAME

colors - libbash library for setting tty colors.

SYNOPSIS

colorSet
Aq Ar color
colorReset
colorPrint
[Aq indent ] Aq Ar color Aq Ar text
colorPrintN
[Aq indent ] Aq Ar color Aq Ar text

DESCRIPTION

General

is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored text on tty.

The function list:

colorSet
Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR
colorReset
Resets current tty color back to normal
colorPrint
Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by INDENT (without adding a newline)
colorPrintN
The same as colorPrint, but trailing newline is added

Detailed interface description follows.

Available colors:

Green
Red
Yellow
White

The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all the other forms are valid and are the same as Red).

FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS

colorSet Aq Fa color

Sets the current printing color to color

colorReset

Resets current tty color back to normal.

colorPrint Bo Ao Fa indent Ac Bc Aq Fa color

Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a newline).

Parameters:

Aq Fa indent The column to move to before start printing.
This parameter is optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position.
Aq Fa color The color to use.
Aq Fa color The text to print.

colorPrintN Bo Ao Fa indent Ac Bc Aq Fa color The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added.

EXAMPLES

Printing a green 'Hello World' with a newline:
Using colorSet:
Using colorPrint:
Using colorPrintN:

AUTHORS

An Hai Zaar Aq haizaar@haizaar.com An Gil Ran Aq gil@ran4.net

SEE ALSO

ldbash(1), libbash(1)