Anyone know how to output pretty colors?

[morphman]

I have a few important messages in my script that i really want to stand out and im trying to figure out how to change the color of the text (a nice bright green or something like that would be great!) I didnt see anything in the man pages for echo or elsewhere. Does anyone know how to do this? Once again, any help you can provide would be great!
--Morphman

[civ1492]

NORMAL="echo -en \\033[0;39m"
SUCCESS="echo -en \\033[1;32m"
WARNING="echo -en \\033[1;33m"
FAILURE="echo -en \\033[1;31m"

it should work if you use this in a bash script ..
normal = black
succes = green
warning = yellow
failure = red ..
play with the last characters to get other colors 1;32, 1;22 .. and so on ..

[morphman]

uhh..... holy crap? I was hoping for something like "echo -green "text"" hehe, if only linux was so easy...
So what exactly would i put in my script to go from one line:
echo Please insert the cd...
to the next line which would say
echo CLOSE THE WINDOW THAT OPENS WHEN THE CD IS AUTOMOUNTED!!!!
in the color green and then switch back to default colors? Thanks for the help so far! Im sorry to be such a newbie....
--Morphman

[civ1492]

hmm .. i made a little script to demonstrate how it works :

#!/bin/sh
NORMAL="echo -en \\033[0;39m"
GREEN="echo -en \\033[1;32m"
YELLOW="echo -en \\033[1;33m"
RED="echo -en \\033[1;31m"

$RED
echo "CLOSE THE WINDOW THAT OPENS WHEN THE CD IS AUTOMOUNTED"
$NORMAL # set back to normal
echo -n "something "
$YELLOW
echo "else.."

$NORMAL #dont forget or you terminal will stay in the last used color

[morphman]

Now thats more like it! Perfect, thanks a lot man! Woohoo! *does a happy dance*