Re: Bash colour codes

[pauline-galea]

Fantastic.  That got everything to work as I had hoped.

Many Thanks


> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 10:29 AM
> From: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> To: pauline-galea@gmx.com
> Cc: help-bash@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Bash colour codes
>
> Changing from 5; to 2; should work
>
> Try
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> \e[48;2;200;100;50;38;2;50;100;200m  # use this
>
> instead of
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> \e[48;5;200;100;50;38;5;50;100;200m  # don't use this
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> Christopher Dimech
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> > Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 9:55 AM
> > From: pauline-galea@gmx.com
> > To: help-bash@gnu.org
> > Subject: Re: Bash colour codes
> >
> > I am playing with rgb terminal colours, and getting some difficulties
> > showing the colours.  Is the following format correct?
> >
> > \e[48;5;200;100;50;38;5;50;100;200m
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 8:34 AM
> > > From: pauline-galea@gmx.com
> > > To: "Greg Wooledge" <greg@wooledge.org>
> > > Cc: help-bash@gnu.org
> > > Subject: Re: Bash colour codes
> > >
> > >
> > > I am using 'Terminator'.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 8:29 AM
> > > > From: "Greg Wooledge" <greg@wooledge.org>
> > > > To: help-bash@gnu.org
> > > > Subject: Re: Bash colour codes
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:22:02PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > > > > There seems to be something different between bold (\e[1;41;32m) and
> > > > > bright (\e[0;41;92m and \e[0;101;32m).
> > > >
> > > > Without knowing *which terminal* you use, the question has no meaning.
> > > > Actually it's not even a question.  It's just a statement.
> > > >
> > > > If you do a Google (or Bing, or Duck-Duck-Go, or whatever) search,
> > > > you can find documentation for terminal escape sequences for your
> > > > terminal.
> > > >
> > > > Here are a few for xterm:
> > > >
> > > > https://www.x.org/docs/xterm/ctlseqs.pdf
> > > > https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html
> > > >
> > > > If your terminal isn't xterm, well, you know what to do.
> > > >
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