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Pre-define colors for Terminal?

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I was trying to remember how I could pre-define colors inside of .bashrc file so they could be called on when I do ${RED} for example.

I can't remember if this was the right way of doing it, but it was something like this if I can remember;

NC="033[0;0;0m"      # no color or formatting

RED="033[1;49;91m"   # color red

BLU="033[1;49;94m"   # color blue

GRN="033[1;49;32m"   # color green

another I recall, was using function so it could be use at any time anywhere. I did have a file showing me how to do this but I lost this file which showed how to do it, and I can't remember how it goes.

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answered 1 Year ago ousear · Accepted Answer

You can define a function in your ~/.bashrc as follows

showred(){

    export RED='033[1;49;91m'

    export NC='033[0;0;0m'

    echo -e $RED"$@"$NC

}

Source ~/.bashrc as . ~/.bashrc or open a new terminal and try.

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Also you can write in colours while writing something on terminal using echo or printf as following,

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