[ale] Changing Color in bash

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I dont know that you can in the console, but you can in an xterm (or an
xterm clone) by passing the 'xterm -bg whatever_color_you_want_to_use'.
This also works on the text itself by using an 'xterm -fg whatever'.

So, to start an xterm with a blue foreground and a green background type
'xterm -fg blue -bg green'.

I'm not sure about the console, as I said before, a black background and
white foreground works well for me.  But, you never know, reading the man
page for bash may reveal something I dont know! ;)

Best wishes,
Dave 

On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Anand Lakshminarayanan wrote:

> hi,
> 	i've just installed linux on my machine.(ver. 2.0.9).i'm very new to
> OS, & i'd like to know how to change the foreground and background
> colors in the shells( bash,csh) in text mode.
> 
> Thanx,
> landy
>