[Gllug] Changing the text colour at the command line

[Nix]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Pete Ryland said:
> echo \033[0;37m
> 
> is a more likely candidate.  These are basically ANSI escape sequences.  The
> thing is, the way they work is that when you set the foreground colour it
> will stay that way (in the terminal) until you set it to something else.
> The escape sequence above will change it back to grey.

On xterm, \033[0;39m should do the trick as well; that's `restore to
default', rather than changing to any specific colour.

(That should be `CSI [0;39m', of course... ;} )

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