Linux/Unix - Change shell font color

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Change shell font color

dagger

2002-07-06, 7:11 pm

Does anyone know how to change the shell font color in Linux?
I am just running the Linux shell and of course it has a black background
with white font.

I was wondering how do I change the font color?
(white is just plain boring).

Supertech

2002-07-06, 9:59 pm

setenv - set or display value of environment variables

setterm - set terminal attributes for a virtual console

set - set or display value of shell variables. This is a shell builtin. The command
set | less

color-xterm - color xterm program. Under Red Hat, this is just a link to xterm-color

On my SCO box it is setcolor.

Boulware5

2002-07-06, 10:10 pm

This won't change the color but you can use the tput command to use boldface, underline, blinking text, etc such as:

$ tput smul # starts underlinemode
$ tput rmul # ends underline mode

dagger

2002-07-07, 12:46 am

I'll try it out
thanks

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