Journal 2022-06-19

Terminal codes

You can change the style of some text in the terminal with escape codes. You can use escape codes by printing \e[<...>m.

Some useful ones are:

• reset: \e[0m
• bold: \e[1m
• italic: \e[3m
• faded: \e[2m
• underlined: \e[4m
• strike-through: \e[9m
• red foreground/background: \e[31m, \e[41m
• green foreground/background: \e[32m, \e[42m
• yellow foreground/background: \e[33m, \e[43m
• blue foreground/background: \e[34m, \e[44m

You can combine multiple colors with a ;, for example for a bold error echo -e '\e[1;31m[ERROR]\e[0m'