Re: [Help-bash] read -ep and ANSI colour sequences

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, muji wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to use ANSI colour sequences when showing a prompt using
> read -ep but I can't figure out how to do this. Is this possible? Am I
> missing something? Using standard escape sequences does not appear to
> work, my current test code looks like:
>
> read -ep "\033[1mABC\033[0m" value;
>
> Using echo -e the output is bold as expected:
>
> echo -e "\033[1mABC\033[0m";
>
> I cannot see any option in `bash help read` that affects ANSI escape
> sequences. I suspect escaping is different in this instance, but my
> experiments have not yielded anything so far. Any pointers much
> appreciated!

read -ep $'\e[41;37;1m >> \e[0m '

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   Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
   Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)