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Array of all possible colors in bash script

7 May 2012, 7:47 am

Sometime back, we had looked at using colors in bash script and here is a way to create a array of all the colors.

#!/bin/bash -
#===============================================================================
#
#          FILE:  colorarray.sh
#
#         USAGE:  ./colorarray.sh
#
#   DESCRIPTION:
#
#       OPTIONS:  ---
#  REQUIREMENTS:  ---
#          BUGS:  ---
#         NOTES:  ---
#        AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal (aka), amit.agarwal@roamware.com
#       COMPANY: Roamware India Pvt Ltd
#       CREATED: 16/04/12 17:24:09 IST
# Last modified: Mon Apr 16, 2012  05:39PM
#      REVISION:  ---
#===============================================================================
count=0
for i in 40m 41m 42m 43m 44m 45m 46m 47m
do
    for l in 0 1
    do
        echo -n "l=$l "
        for k in 0 1
        do
            # echo -n "k=$k "
            for j in {30..37}
            do
                carr[$count]="\033[$k;$j;$l;$i"
                echo -ne "${carr[$count]}$count \033[00m"
                ((count++))
            done
        done
        echo
    done
    echo
done

You can add this script to any script of your choice and you have all the 256 colors available to you in the script without additional coding. Happy coding.

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Display X applications from virtual terminals

3 May 2012, 5:35 pm
GNOME Session plugin

GNOME Session plugin (Photo credit: David Siegel)

Here is a script that can help you set the proper envirionment to start a gnome-shell from one of the terminals.

#!/bin/bash - 
#===============================================================================
#
# FILE: xenv.sh
# 
# USAGE: ./xenv.sh 
# 
# DESCRIPTION: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Debugging
#
# 
# OPTIONS: ---
# REQUIREMENTS: ---
# BUGS: ---
# NOTES: ---
# AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal (aka), amit.agarwal@roamware.com
# CREATED: 09/14/2011 04:45:31 PM IST
# Last modified: Wed Sep 14, 2011 04:45PM
# REVISION: ---
#===============================================================================

gnome_session=$(pgrep -u $USER gnome-session)
eval export$(sed's/\o000/\n/g;' < /proc/$gnome_session/environ |grep DISPLAY)
eval export$(sed's/\o000/\n/g;' < /proc/$gnome_session/environ |grep XAUTHORITY)
eval export$(sed's/\o000/\n/g;' < /proc/$gnome_session/environ |grep DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS)

So, once you have done that you have the correct environment to use the X display and thus you can start the gnome-shell as well or do any other fancy thing that you want :)

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colors in bash scripts

30 April 2012, 9:22 am
Colours

Colours (Photo credit: CherrySoda!)

I have been trying to understand the color codes for bash for a pretty long time, but somehow never got time to understand this clearly. So this time around when I was writing a script to analyze some logs. I thought I will give it a go and finally understood some part of this.

So, first we will start with this script. This is taken from here.

#!/bin/bash -
#===============================================================================
#
#          FILE:  colortest.sh
#
#         USAGE:  ./colortest.sh
#
#   DESCRIPTION:   http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x329.html
#
#       OPTIONS:  ---
#  REQUIREMENTS:  ---
#          BUGS:  ---
#         NOTES:  ---
#        AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal (aka), amit.agarwal@roamware.com
#       COMPANY:
#       CREATED: 09/04/12 14:29:47 IST
# Last modified: Sun Apr 15, 2012  06:29PM
#      REVISION:  ---
#===============================================================================

#!/bin/bash
#
#   This file echoes a bunch of color codes to the
#   terminal to demonstrate what's available.  Each
#   line is the color code of one forground color,
#   out of 17 (default + 16 escapes), followed by a
#   test use of that color on all nine background
#   colors (default + 8 escapes).
#

T='gYw'   # The test text

echo -e "\n                 40m     41m     42m     43m\
     44m     45m     46m     47m";

for FGs in '    m' '   1m' '  30m' '1;30m' '  31m' '1;31m' '  32m' \
           '1;32m' '  33m' '1;33m' '  34m' '1;34m' '  35m' '1;35m' \
           '  36m' '1;36m' '  37m' '1;37m';
  do FG=${FGs// /}
  echo -en " $FGs \033[$FG  $T  "
  for BG in 40m 41m 42m 43m 44m 45m 46m 47m;
    #do echo -en "$EINS \033[$FG\033[$BG  \$T  \033[0m";
    do echo -en " \033[$FG\033[$BG  $T  \033[0m";
  done
  echo;
done
echo

This script will give you all the colors that are possible in the bash scripting. And now let's understand color's a little more.

There are basically two ways you can use colors and I will illustrate both with echo command.

Before we get into all these, we will see hot to reset the colors:

echo -e "\033[00m"

The first one is the one used in the above script, where in you can use the codes multiple times to get the desired effect. For example, see the screenshot below:

colors in bash

colors in bash

And the other way to achieve the same is to use all the color codes with one escape sequence :

colors in bash

colors in bash

Important to note here is that the "m" is missing.

All the codes that you want can be used separated by ";" and end with "m". I think I have explained the things.

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