Pretty Colours

[Jim]

I found a neat shell script that shows the different terminal / shell colour combinations; though I would post it here if anyone was interested. Just save it as something like "colours.sh" and make sure to make the file executable.

[code]#!/bin/sh
#
# colours v1.03
#
# A simple shell script to output an ANSI terminal color chart.
# It may be useful when trying to customize your ANSI terminal
# color scheme!
#
# Written and placed in the public domain by Ian Abbott <ian@abbott.org>
#
# ANSI terminal color chart generator
# Author: Ian Abbott
# License: BSD License, http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
# URL: http://www.snippetcenter.org/de/ansi-terminal-color-chart-generator-s1346.aspx

for h in 0 1; do
echo -e "\\033[0;${h}m\\c"
case $h in
0) echo -e "Normal\\c";;
1) echo -e "High\\c";;
esac
echo -e " intensity foreground (background color in parentheses)\\033[m"
for f in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
for b in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8; do
echo -e "\\033[${h};3${f}\\c"
if [ $b -lt 8 ]; then
echo -e ";4${b}m\\c"
else
echo -e "m\\c"
fi
case $f in
0) echo -e " BLACK \\c";;
1) echo -e " RED \\c";;
2) echo -e " GREEN \\c";;
3) echo -e " YELLOW\\c";;
4) echo -e " BLUE \\c";;
5) echo -e "MAGENTA\\c";;
6) echo -e " CYAN \\c";;
7) echo -e " WHITE \\c";;
esac
case $b in
8) echo -e "\\033[m";;
*) echo -e " \\033[m \\c";;
esac
done
done
echo -e "\\033[${h}m\\c"
for b in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8; do
case $b in
0) echo -e "(black) \\c";;
1) echo -e " (red) \\c";;
2) echo -e "(green) \\c";;
3) echo -e "(yellow) \\c";;
4) echo -e " (blue) \\c";;
5) echo -e "(magenta)\\c";;
6) echo -e " (cyan) \\c";;
7) echo -e "(white) \\c";;
8) echo -e " (none)\\c";;
esac
done
echo -e "\\033[m\\n"
done[/code]