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

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/20/13 5:01 AM, 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";

The basic problem is that read -p doesn't interpret octal sequences and
convert them to single characters, and echo -e does.

Chet
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