bash: echo colours and text formatting
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Do not forget the -e switch to echo tabs (\t) and new lines (\n).
#!/bin/bash
# The following does not work:
echo "This is a tab \t and that \n was a new line."
echo "Here is some "\t\033[1;33m""colour""\033[0m!"
# This works:
echo -e "This is a tab \t and that \n was a new line."
echo -e "Here is some "\t\033[1;33m""colour""\033[0m!"For more information, check man echo