March 29, 2004

Blue Hat

As my laptop booted up and the words Red Hat scrolled past, Sarah said, "Daddy, can you make that say Blue Hat next time?"

I found this in rc.sysinit: 

[ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && echo -en $"\\033[0;31m"
 echo -en "Red Hat"
 [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && echo -en $"\\033[0;39m"
 PRODUCT=`sed "s/Red Hat \(.*\) release.*/\1/" /etc/redhat-release`
 echo " $PRODUCT"

Now I'm just trying to figure out what the color codes are.

:-) Posted by rbowen at March 29, 2004 05:51 AM | TrackBack

Comments

Those are the ansi colors (iso 6429). Same as the values used in /etc/DIR_COLORS. If you look at man 5 DIR_COLORS it will give you two tables. You have 0;31 and 0;39, which translate to
31=red foreground
39=some background, but I don't remember which one... guessing white, but might be a gray (or I'm totally wrong and its like puce or something).

DIR_COLORS, as I am sure you are aware, are the colors assigned when you do an ls from the command line.

--Moose

Posted by: Moose on March 29, 2004 08:12 AM

I posted this a while back on the lplug mailing list, but in case you missed it. It's an easy to understand article on how to use console color with linux...

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/

Aaron

Posted by: Aaron on March 31, 2004 10:56 AM
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