Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

[zentara <zentara@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13 Apr 2003 11:55:21 -0500
Dennis Tuchler <dtuchler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>When I enter the command ls at a terminal window, some of the file names
>are in various colors, even though I set the colors preferences to black
>on white. Some jpg files are in magenta, and some in black print. What
>sort of information is being transmitted by these colors?

Those are ansi escape sequences.
Run this script.  There is a man page for these codes,  "man console_codes"

#!/bin/sh
echo "\e[1;31mHello world\e[0m\n"
echo "\e[1;32mHello world\e[0m\n";
echo "\e[1;33mHello world\e[0m\n";
echo "\e[1;34mHello world\e[0m\n";
echo "\e[1;35mHello world\e[0m\n";
echo "\e[1;36Hello world\e[0m\n";
echo "\e[1;37mHello world\e[0m\n";


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