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NAME

     colors - libbash library for setting tty colors.

SYNOPSIS

     colorSetcolorcolorReset
     colorPrint   [〈indent〉] 〈color〉 〈textcolorPrintN  [〈indent〉] 〈color〉 〈text

DESCRIPTION

   General
     colors is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored
     text on tty.

     The function list:
           colorSet         Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR
           colorReset       Resets current tty color back to normal
           colorPrint       Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by  INDENT
                            (without adding a newline)
           colorPrintN      The  same  as  colorPrint, but trailing newline is
                            added

     Detailed interface description follows.

   Available colors:
           Green
           Red
           Yellow
           White
     The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all
     the other forms are valid and are the same as Red).

FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS

   colorSetcolor〉
     Sets the current printing color to color.

   colorReset
     Resets current tty color back to normal.

   colorPrint [〈indent〉] 〈color〉
     Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a
     newline).

     Parameters:

       〈indent〉
         The column to move to before start printing.  This parameter is
         optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position.

       〈color〉
         The color to use.

       〈color〉
         The text to print.

   colorPrintN [〈indent〉] 〈color〉
     The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added.

EXAMPLES

     Printing a green ’Hello World’ with a newline:

          Using colorSet:
                  $ colorSet green
                  $ echo ’Hello World’
                  $ colorReset

          Using colorPrint:
                  $ colorPrint ’Hello World’; echo

          Using colorPrintN:
                  $ colorPrintN ’Hello World’

AUTHORS

     Hai Zaar 〈haizaar@haizaar.com〉
     Gil Ran 〈gil@ran4.net

SEE ALSO

     ldbash(1), libbash(1)