From: Alex Waite <alexqw85@gmail.com>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dash and ANSI escape sequences
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:27:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ldvn4d$pi$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140218131132.GA30525@hal.lan>
On 02/18/2014 02:11 PM, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
>> [snip]
>> Am I somehow missing some hidden functionality in printf, or is
>> there really no POSIX compliant method of printing colors, or is
>> Dash simply incomplete with its POSIX support in this regard?
>
> dash, POSIX, or C89 have nothing to do with colors, it depends on
> your terminal whether it interprets certain escape sequences as
> color attributes.
Ahh. Ok.
> You can print arbitrary bytes in a portable way (i.e. as
> specified by POSIX) by using octal notation, e.g. escape is 033
> in octal:
>
> printf "\033[1;32mpassed\033[0m\n"
Understood; I get how this all fits together now.
Thanks for your example and explanation!
---Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-18 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-18 11:54 dash and ANSI escape sequences Alex Waite
2014-02-18 13:11 ` Guido Berhoerster
2014-02-18 13:22 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-02-18 13:27 ` Alex Waite [this message]
2014-02-18 13:16 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
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