On 06 Mar 2012, at 13:18, Camillo Bruni wrote:
> actually its a bit of a hack :D (well the implementation not)
>
> but the problem is, that we should properly detect if the terminal supports
> colors or not ;) otherwise you might get some ugly escape sequences :D
Do you know the tput tool?
I use it in my makefiles like this:
START_BOLD=$(shell tput bold)
STOP_BOLD=$(shell tput sgr0)
It gives you the supported escape sequence for a give style based on a database
of terminals and your current environment.
Best regards
Stefan
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