Colour Codes for Echo

Introduction

How to colour echo commands. Very useful for making scripts more readable. These codes are use by scripts on this site.

Usage

Place the following commands at the top of your scripts

my_dir="/u01/app/oracle/DBA/ORACLE/SCRIPTS"
source "$my_dir/colors.ksh"

The use the following commands to output color echo commands

echo -e ${CYAN}"This is CYAN"${NORM}

Color Codes for echo -e Commands

############################################################################
#
# Color Codes
#
############################################################################
ESC_SEQ="\033["

NORM=$ESC_SEQ"0m"

RED=$ESC_SEQ"0;31m"
LRED=$ESC_SEQ"1;31m"
GREEN="\033[0;32m"
LGREEN=$ESC_SEQ"1;32m"
YELLOW="\033[0;33m"
LYELLOW="\033[1;33m"
CYAN="\033[0;36m"
PINK="\033[1;35m"
LPURPLE="\033[1;35m"
BLUE="\033[0;34m"
LBLUE="\033[1;34m"
BOLD="\033[1m"
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