What is the ANSI color code for a purple (or dark purple) background with black bold text (foreground).
As an example, here is cyan with black bold text:
echo -e "\e[30;1;46mExample\e[0m"
After consulting a number of ANSI color code lists and examples, I can't figure out how to do the same with a purple background. The closest I can come up with is a magenta background with black, bold text, by using 30;1;45m:
Your escape sequence \e[30;1;45m is perhaps easier understood as the merger of three sequences:
\e[30m -- this means "black foreground"\e[1m -- this means "bright foreground"\e[45m -- this means "magenta background"Now these colour sequences are limited to 8 colors
These are the traditional ANSI colours.
However there are sequences that allow 256 colours to be chosen, if your terminal supports them.
\e[38;5;###m where ### is a number between 0 and 255 will select a foreground colour.
\e[48;5;###m similarly choses the background colour.
So maybe \e[38;5;0;1;48;5;92m might be close to what you want.
Note: if you use 256 colour background settings then you also need to use the 256 colour foreground setting.
FWIW, the following python script will show all the background colours which can help you pick the colour you want.
import sys
for i in range(0, 16):
for j in range(0, 16):
code = str(i * 16 + j)
sys.stdout.write(u"\u001b[48;5;" + code + "m " + code.ljust(4))
print u"\u001b[0m"
(taken from http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/BuildyourownCommandLinewithANSIescapecodes.html#background-colors )
echo -e "\e[48;5;55mExample\e[0m"
\e[38;5;0;1;48;5;55mExample\e[0m. I've updated the answer to make that clearer
NO_FORMAT="\033[0m"
F_BOLD="\033[1m"
C_PURPLE="\033[48;5;5m"
echo -e "${F_BOLD}${C_PURPLE}Put some color on me${NO_FORMAT}"
