If you wanted to have colors in the bash output (including the colors in PS1-4), don’t you keep wondering how the color code would look on the terminal. So, I wrote this small script to show the complete color codes. This is how the output would look:

And here is the script:
  
    
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          1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 
         
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      #!/bin/bash -<br /> #===============================================================================<br /> #<br /> #          FILE:  colors.sh<br /> #<br /> #         USAGE:  ./colors.sh<br /> #<br /> #   DESCRIPTION:  Bash colors<br /> #<br /> #       OPTIONS:  ---<br /> #  REQUIREMENTS:  ---<br /> #          BUGS:  ---<br /> #         NOTES:  ---<br /> #        AUTHOR:  Amit Agarwal (AKA), amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in<br /> #       COMPANY:  Individual<br /> #       VERSION:  1.0<br /> #       CREATED:  09/21/2009 06:12:07 PM IST<br /> #      REVISION:  ---<br /> #===============================================================================<br /> <br /> for c in `seq 0 255`;<br /> do<br /> t=5;<br /> [[ $c -lt 108 ]]&&t=0;<br /> for i in `seq $t 5`;<br /> do<br /> #Display the codes also for easier lookup in terminal<br /> <!--loginview start-->echo $i;${c}<!--loginview end--><br /> echo -e "<a class="zem_slink" title="Path (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29">\\</a>\e[0;48;$i;${c}m|| $i:$c `seq -s+0 $(($COLUMNS/2))|tr -d \'[0-9]\'`\\e[0m";<br /> done;<br /> done<br /> <br /> # setup_colors - Adds colors to array CC for global use<br /> # 30 - Black, 31 - Red, 32 - Green, 33 - Yellow, 34 - Blue,<br /> # 35 - Magenta, 36 - Blue/Green, 37 - White,<br /> # 30/42 - Black on Green \'30\\;42\'<br /> <!--loginview start-->function setup_colors(){<br /> declare -a CC;<br /> for i in `seq 0 7`;<br /> do<br /> ii=$(($i+7));<br /> CC[$i]="\\033[1;3${i}m";<br /> CC[$ii]="\\033[0;3${i}m";<br /> done;<br /> CC[15]="\\033[30;42m";<br /> R=$\'\\033[0;00m\';<br /> X=$\'\\033[1;37m\';<br /> export R X;<br /> }<br /> function display_colors(){<br /> for i in $(seq 0 $((${#CC[@]} - 1))); do echo -e "${CC[$i]}[$i]\\n$R"; done<br /> }
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