Formating text in Shell Script

By: Vivek G

This shell script demonstrates how to display text in different colors, blinking text, bold text etc.

 clear 
echo -e "\033[1m Hello World"
 # bold effect
echo -e "\033[5m Blink"
       # blink effect
echo -e "\033[0m Hello World"
 # back to noraml

echo -e "\033[31m Hello World"
 # Red color
echo -e "\033[32m Hello World"
 # Green color
echo -e "\033[33m Hello World"
 # See remaing on screen
echo -e "\033[34m Hello World"
echo -e "\033[35m Hello World"
echo -e "\033[36m Hello World"

echo -e -n "\033[0m "
  # back to noraml

echo -e "\033[41m Hello World"
echo -e "\033[42m Hello World"
echo -e "\033[43m Hello World"
echo -e "\033[44m Hello World"
echo -e "\033[45m Hello World"
echo -e "\033[46m Hello World"


echo -e "\033[0m Hello World"

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