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Change colors in console/virtual terminal
Is there a way to alter all the available colors in console / virtual terminal?
By console, I mean what you get after pressing CTRL + ALT + F1 and not anything like xterm or urxvt. So, I guess that ...
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Passing a bash command-line argument containing a dot
How can a command-line argument containing a dot (.) be passed? Are there any escape sequences for capturing characters like dot?
The following invocation of a bash-script from the shell does not ...
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Could someone please explain some of these escape codes?
I'm seeing this in my .bashrc file:
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\
[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
and I have absolutely no idea what all those ...
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Where do my ANSI escape codes go when I pipe to another process? Can I keep them?
I sometime want to pipe the color-coded output fror a process, eg. grep... but when I pipe it to another process, eg. sed, the color codes are lost...
Is the some way to keep thes codes intact ?
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