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:

Color	Escape
Black	00;30
Dark Gray	01;30
Red	00;31
Light Red	01;31
Green	00;32
Light Green	01;32
Brown	00;33
Yellow	01;33
Blue	00;34
Light Blue	01;34
Purple	00;35
Light Purple	01;35
Cyan	00;36
Light Cyan	01;36
Light Gray	00;37
White	01;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'