Console Colors

console-colors is a console library to manipulate terminal colors.

Currently, only 16 colors terminal are supported.

Installation

Just copy console-colors file to any location in your computer.

Usage

Source the main file into your script with:

source /path/to/console-colors

If you put console-colors into your search path (e.g. /usr/local/bin) you can source without full path:

source console-colors

In order to use the color utilities, you just have to call the color function (or is abbreviation: c):

echo "Print $(color red)text in red$(color reset)."
echo "Print $(c g b)in bold green$(c x) using abbreviations."
echo "Print $(c w)$(c br)white text with red background$(c x) using abbreviations."

NOTE: Set foregreound color before background color.

Functions

enable_colors: Enable color output.
disable_colors: Disable color output.
disable_colors_if_no_tty: Disable color output if not in a TTY (i.e. when command is redirected).
color <color> <attr>: Output escape characters to enable colored text.
c <color> <attr>: Alias of color function.

Available colors and attributes

List of available colors (and abbreviation):

black (k)
red (r)
green (g)
yellow (y)
blue (b)
purple (p)
cyan (c)
gray (gr)
dark-gray (dg)
light-red (lr)
light-green (lg)
light-yellow (ly)
light-blue (lb)
light-purple (lp)
light-cyan (lc)
white (w)
reset (x)

List of available background colors (and abbreviation):

bgray (bgr)
bred (br)
bgreen (bg)
byellow (by)
bblue (bb)
bpurple (bp)
bcyan (bc)
bwhite (bw)
blight-gray (bdg)
blight-red (blr)
blight-green (blg)
blight-yellow (bly)
blight-blue (blb)
blight-purple (blp)
blight-cyan (blc)
blight-white (blw)

List of available attributes (and abbreviation):

normal (n)
bold (b)
dim (d)
underline (u)
strike (s)
inverted (i)
hidden (h)

License

GPLv3

Diego Lago

diegolagoglez / console-colors