I have the following piece of code.
bold='' reset=$(echo -en '\033[0m') black=$(echo -en '\e[1;30m') magenta=$(echo -en '\033[00;35m') blue=$(echo -en '\e[1;34m') cyan=$(echo -en '\e[1;36m') green=$(echo -en '\e[1;32m') orange=$(echo -en '\e[1;33m') purple=$(echo -en '\e[1;35m') red=$(echo -en '\e[1;31m') white=$(echo -en '\e[1;37m') yellow=$(echo -en '\e[1;33m') lime_yellow=$(echo -en '\e[1;33m') power_blue=$(echo -en '\e[1;34m') blink=$(echo -en '\e[1;31m') reverse=$(echo -en '\e[1;31m') underline=$(echo -en '\e[1;31m') if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 &>/dev/null; then echo "tput color is supported." tput sgr0 # Reset colors bold=$(tput bold) reset=$(tput sgr0) black=$(tput setaf 0) magenta=$(tput setaf 5) blue=$(tput setaf 33) cyan=$(tput setaf 37) green=$(tput setaf 64) orange=$(tput setaf 166) purple=$(tput setaf 125) red=$(tput setaf 124) white=$(tput setaf 15) yellow=$(tput setaf 136) lime_yellow=$(tput setaf 190) power_blue=$(tput setaf 153) blink=$(tput blink) reverse=$(tput smso) underline=$(tput smul) else echo "tput color is not supported. Use old school colors." fi echo ${red}RED${green}GREEN${yellow}YELLOW${blue}BLUE${purple}PURPLE${cyan}CYAN${white}WHITE${reset} Basically there are two types of colors, tput generated or the old-fashioned escape characters like \e[1;32m. Since the tput type is more interesting, for example, it supports blinking and underline, the code uses tput type color if possible. Here is an image to prove it works as expected in Oracle Linux 7.6 (kinda like RedHat or CentOS) GUI environment.
When I run it from other terminals, it doesn't work. For example, below is the snapshot when running in MobaXterm.
I also tried putty and it doesn't work either. Is there anything wrong with my code?
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I executed echo $TERM in each of the terminals and below is the result.
Oracle Linux with Desktop environment (color works) Output: xterm-256color MobaXterm on Windows (color doesn't work) Output: xterm putty on Windows (color doesn't work) Output: xterm
