COLORS(3)

NAME
colors - libbash library for setting tty colors.

SYNOPSIS
colorSet
    <color>
colorReset
colorPrint
    [<indent>] <color> <text>
colorPrintN
    [<indent>] <color> <text>

DESCRIPTION

  General

colors is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored text on tty.

The function list:
colorSet
    Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR
colorReset
    Resets current tty color back to normal
colorPrint
    Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by INDENT (without adding a newline)
colorPrintN
    The same as colorPrint, but trailing newline is added

Detailed interface description follows.

  Available colors:
Green
Red
Yellow
White
The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all the other forms are valid and are the same as Red).

FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS

  colorSet color
Sets the current printing color to color.

  colorReset
Resets current tty color back to normal.

  colorPrint indent color
Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a newline).

Parameters:

<indent>
    The column to move to before start printing. This parameter is optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position.

<color>
    The color to use.

<color>
    The text to print.

  colorPrintN indent color
The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added.

EXAMPLES
Printing a green 'Hello World' with a newline:

Using colorSet:
        $ colorSet green
        $ echo 'Hello World'
        $ colorReset

Using colorPrint:
        $ colorPrint 'Hello World'; echo

Using colorPrintN:
        $ colorPrintN 'Hello World'

AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@gmail.com> Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net>

SEE ALSO
ldbash(1), libbash(3)