

The same thing can be accomplished using RGB values instead of ANSI color codes in a compatible terminal depending on whether you want to apply the color to the foreground or to the background, use an value of 38 or 48 (respectively) in the following command: printf '\e[ 2 m'įor example, to set the foreground color ( = 38) to red ( = 255, = 0, = 0) and the background color ( = 48) to black ( = 0, = 0, = 0): printf '\e[38 2 255 0 0m Foreground color: red\n' It's necessary to redraw the prompt using printf '\e[K' in order for the background color to apply to the whole line and in order for the foreground color to apply to the cursor:

Printf '\e[48 5 0m Background color: black\n'
#CYAN FIREWATCH BACKGROUND CODE#
Here's a script to list the colors in the 256-color palette along with their ANSI color code in XTerm/ANSI-compatible terminals with a 256-color palette support: #!/bin/bashįor((i=16 i value of 38 or 48 (respectively) in the following command: printf '\e[ 5 m'įor example, to set the foreground color ( = 38) to red ( = 196) and the background color ( = 48) to black ( = 0): printf '\e[38 5 196m Foreground color: red\n' On certain XTerm/ANSI-compatible terminals (like xterm and gnome-terminal), you can set colors using a palette bigger then the default 8/16-colors palette (for example using an 88-colors, 256-colors or 16777216-colors (RGB) palette both xterm and gnome-terminal support both the 256-colors and the 16777216-colors (RGB) palette) mind that the shell might override this (this is the case e.g.
