There was a nice article on the subject in the Linux Gazette:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue65/padala.html
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Tal Peer wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Amit Roseberger wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hi List.
> >>I have a script that produce output to the standard terminal (a shell
> >>window in Linux).
> >>For example:
> >>
> >>[snip]
> >>
> >>But... I want to understand exactly what happens and also to find out if
> >>this is the best and most elegant solution.
> >>I would appreciate a nice solution but also a direction to some written
> >>man that describe it.
> >>BAsically, I want to understand how this is done in the technical level
> >>(I mean who is responsible the OS or the Shell) so that my code could be
> >>run on different distributions of the same OS or different shells.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Well, the shell is responsible for output formatting, including
> >colours.
> >
> ahem noitisnt ahem
>
> > The bash way of colouring output (including colour codes) is
> >described in:
> >http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/2002-March/048795.html
> >
> >
> The colors are produced by the terminal emulation. In the case of a
> virtual console, that is done by, I think, the kernel. In the case of X,
> that is done by whatever program you opened (xterm, konsole, etc.).
>
> The commands you describe above are the ANSI, or VT100, command set.
> These were used by the traditional VT100 digital terminal, and are now
> used by VT100 terminal emulators. There are, however, many other standards.
>
> If you want your escape sequences to work on 90% of the cases, just use
> the codes above. If you want them to work on 100% of the cases, RTFM
> ncurses.
>
> Shachar
>
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> Shachar Shemesh
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>
>
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