csh color codes

Thu Jan 29 15:49:00 GMT 2004

>> I am running the latest Cygwin on my Win2k and I'm using csh as
> the standard shell. The color mode for XTerm is enabled and
> works fine, e.g. with "ls --color".
>> However I have a problem to figure out how to generate the
> appropriate control (escape) sequences to included colors in
> shell script outputs. I have some shell scripts here which
> originate from a HP-UX based csh. There, the escape sequences
> are generated by pressing "Ctrl + V" + "Esc" + "[" + 'code',
> where 'code' is e.g. "1m" for bold or "32m" for green (=
> ^[[32m). However, these codes don't work within the Cygwin-csh.
>> Does anyone know the correct sequences here?

Why not use printf and 033円 for the escape character? The
following prints "xxx yyy zzz" where "yyy" is green:
 printf 'xxx 033円[32myyy033円[m zzz'
Here is a list showing other escape sequences
 # foreground colours
 printf '033円[30m black 033円[m'
 printf '033円[31m red 033円[m'
 printf '033円[32m green 033円[m'
 printf '033円[33m yellow 033円[m'
 printf '033円[34m blue 033円[m'
 printf '033円[35m magenta 033円[m'
 printf '033円[36m cyan 033円[m'
 printf '033円[37m white 033円[m'
 # background colours
 printf '033円[40m black 033円[m'
 printf '033円[41m red 033円[m'
 printf '033円[42m green 033円[m'
 printf '033円[43m yellow 033円[m'
 printf '033円[44m blue 033円[m'
 printf '033円[45m magenta 033円[m'
 printf '033円[46m cyan 033円[m'
 printf '033円[47m white 033円[m'
 # other
 printf '033円[0m default 033円[m'
 printf '033円[1m bold 033円[m'
 printf '033円[2m faint 033円[m'
 printf '033円[3m italic 033円[m'
 printf '033円[4m underlined 033円[m'
 printf '033円[5m slowblink 033円[m'
 printf '033円[6m rapidblink 033円[m'
 printf '033円[7m negative 033円[m'
Peter
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