ASCII Escapes For Bash

Stolen from http://hacktux.com/bash/colors

Bash Color Escape Codes

Echo (echo -e) the following escape codes inside \e[ESCCODEm to colorize text in Bash:

Black	0;30
Dark Gray	1;30
Blue	0;34
Light Blue	1;34
Green	0;32
Light Green	1;32
Cyan	0;36
Light Cyan	1;36
Red	0;31
Light Red	1;31
Purple	0;35
Light Purple	1;35
Brown	0;33
Yellow	1;33
Light Gray	0;37
White	1;37

Make sure to use echo -e to enable interpretation of backslash escapes:

bash$ echo -e "This is red->\e[00;31mRED\e[00m"

Remove Color

Echo \e[00m to remove text color modifications:

bash$ echo -n '\e[00m'