Bash shell

Colorful for text output

Same as for the Windows terminal, bash is also able to display colorful text outputs.

Find this reference to determine the needed color code.

To define a text foreground color, apply the desired color before the respective text. For convenience, you may want to define it as a variable:

#!/bin/bash

RED="\e[31m"
DEFAULT="\e[39m"

echo -e "${RED}This is in red${DEFAULT}"
echo -e "This uses the default color"

which prints out the following:

This is in red

This uses the default color