give color to your scripts

Use the below codes in bash using 'echo -e ' to colorize your output.

#!/bin/bash
#
# Description:
#
# Prints a color table of 8bg * 8fg * 2 states (regular/bold)
#
# Copyright:
#
# (C) 2009 Wolfgang Frisch <xororand@unfoog.de>
#
# License:
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

echo
echo Table for 16-color terminal escape sequences.
echo Replace ESC with \\033 in bash.
echo
echo "Background | Foreground colors"
echo "---------------------------------------------------------------------"
for((bg=40;bg<=47;bg++)); do
for((bold=0;bold<=1;bold++)) do
echo -en "\033[0m"" ESC[${bg}m | "
for((fg=30;fg<=37;fg++)); do
if [ $bold == "0" ]; then
echo -en "\033[${bg}m\033[${fg}m [${fg}m "
else
echo -en "\033[${bg}m\033[1;${fg}m [1;${fg}m"
fi
done
echo -e "\033[0m"
done
echo "--------------------------------------------------------------------- "
done

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