How to echo with different colors in the Windows command line

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I know that the color bf command sets the colors of the whole command line window but I wanted to to print one single line in a different color

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You can just creates files with the name of the word to print, uses findstr which can print in color, and then erases the file. Try this example:

@echo off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=#" %%a in ('"prompt #$H#$E# & echo on & for %%b in (1) do rem"') do (
  set "DEL=%%a"
)

call :ColorText 0a "green"
call :ColorText 0C "red"
call :ColorText 0b "cyan"
echo(
call :ColorText 19 "blue"
call :ColorText 2F "white"
call :ColorText 4e "yellow"

goto :eof

:ColorText
echo off
<nul set /p ".=%DEL%" > "%~2"
findstr /v /a:%1 /R "^$" "%~2" nul
del "%~2" > nul 2>&1
goto :eof

Run color /? to get a list of colors.

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This is a self-compiled bat  net hybrid  should be saved as  BAT  that can be used on any system that have installed  net framework   it s a rare thing to see an windows without  NET framework even for the oldest XP 2003 installations    It uses jscript net compiler to create an exe capable to print strings with different background foreground color only for the current line   if   X     Y   end    JScript comment  echo off setlocal  for  f  quot tokens   delims  quot    v in   dir  b  s  a -d   o -n  quot  SystemRoot  Microsoft NET Framework  jsc exe quot    do      set  quot jsc   v quot     if not exist  quot   n0 exe quot         quot  jsc  quot   nologo  out  quot   n0 exe quot   quot   dpsfnx0 quot       n0 exe     endlocal  amp  exit  b  errorlevel       import System   var arguments String     Environment GetCommandLineArgs     var newLine   false  var output    quot  quot   var foregroundColor   Console ForegroundColor  var backgroundColor   Console BackgroundColor  var evaluate   false  var currentBackground Console BackgroundColor  var currentForeground Console ForegroundColor      http   stackoverflow com a 24294348 388389 var jsEscapes        n     n      r     r      t     t      f     f      v     v      b     b      function decodeJsEscape    hex0  hex1  octal  other      var hex   hex0    hex1    if  hex    return String fromCharCode parseInt hex  16        if  octal    return String fromCharCode parseInt octal  8        return jsEscapes other     other     function decodeJsString s      return s replace           Matches an escape sequence with UTF-16 in group 1  single byte hex in group 2           octal in group 3  and arbitrary other single-character escapes in group 4              u  0-9A-Fa-f  4   x  0-9A-Fa-f  2     0-3  0-7  0 2   4-7  0-7         g        decodeJsEscape       function printHelp         print  arguments 0     quot   -s string  -f foreground   -b background   -n   -e  quot        print   quot   quot        print   quot  string          String to be printed quot        print   quot  foreground      Foreground color - a  quot        print   quot                  number between 0 and 15  quot        print   quot  background      Background color - a  quot        print   quot                  number between 0 and 15  quot        print   quot  -n              Indicates if a new line should quot        print   quot                  be written at the end of the  quot       print   quot                  string by default - no   quot        print   quot  -e              Evaluates special character  quot        print   quot                  sequences like   n  b  r and etc  quot       print   quot  quot        print   quot Colors   quot        for   var c   0   c  lt  16   c                        Console BackgroundColor   c          Console Write   quot   quot             Console BackgroundColor currentBackground          Console Write   quot - quot  c            Console WriteLine   quot  quot             Console BackgroundColor currentBackground              function errorChecker  e Error             if   e message     quot Input string was not in a correct format  quot                  print   quot the color parameters should be numbers between 0 and 15 quot                 Environment Exit  1              else if  e message     quot Index was outside the bounds of the array  quot                 print   quot invalid arguments quot                 Environment Exit  2              else               print    quot Error Message   quot    e message                print    quot Error Code   quot      e number  amp  0xFFFF                  print    quot Error Name   quot    e name                Environment Exit  666                 function numberChecker  i Int32        if  i  gt  15    i  lt  0             print  quot the color parameters should be numbers between 0 and 15 quot            Environment Exit 1             if   arguments length    1    arguments 1  toLowerCase       quot -help quot     arguments 1  toLowerCase       quot -help quot            printHelp        Environment Exit 0      for  var arg   1  arg  lt   arguments length-1  arg           if   arguments arg  toLowerCase       quot -n quot              newLine true                 if   arguments arg  toLowerCase       quot -e quot              evaluate true                 if   arguments arg  toLowerCase       quot -s quot              output arguments arg 1                       if   arguments arg  toLowerCase       quot -b quot                       try               backgroundColor Int32 Parse  arguments arg 1               catch e                errorChecker e                            if   arguments arg  toLowerCase       quot -f quot              try               foregroundColor Int32 Parse arguments arg 1              catch e                errorChecker e                      Console BackgroundColor   backgroundColor   Console ForegroundColor   foregroundColor    if   evaluate         output decodeJsString output      if   newLine         Console WriteLine output       else       Console Write output           Console BackgroundColor   currentBackground  Console ForegroundColor   currentForeground   Here s the help message   Example  coloroutput bat  -s  quot aa nbb n u0025cc quot  -b 10 -f 3 -n -e You can also find this script here  You can also check carlos  color function - gt  http   www dostips com forum viewtopic php f 3 amp t 4453

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I m adding an answer to address an issue noted in some comments above  that inline ansi color codes can misbehave when inside a FOR loop  actually  within any parenthesized block of code    The  bat code below demonstrates  1  the use of inline color codes   2  the color failure that can occur when inline color codes are used in a FOR loop or within a parenthesized block of code  and  3  a solution to the problem   When the  bat code executes  tests 2 and 3 demonstrate the colorcode failure  and test 4 shows no failure because it implements the solution    EDIT 2020-04-07  I found another solution that s presumably more efficient than calling a subroutine  Enclose the FINDSTR phrase in parentheses  as in the following line      echo success    findstr  R success    ENDEDIT   Note  In my  limited  experience  the color code problem manifests only after input is piped to FINDSTR inside the block of code   That s how the following  bat reproduces the problem   It s possible the color code problem is more general than after piping to FINDSTR   If someone can explain the nature of the problem  and if there s a better way to solve it  I d appreciate it    goto  main  resetANSI EXIT  B rem  The resetANSI subroutine is used to fix the colorcode rem  bug  even though it appears to do nothing    main  echo off setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion  rem  Define some useful colorcode vars  for  F  delims      E in    prompt   E   amp  for   E in  1  do rem    do set  ESCchar   E  set  green  ESCchar  92m  set  yellow  ESCchar  93m  set  magenta  ESCchar  95m  set  cyan  ESCchar  96m  set  white  ESCchar  97m  set  black  ESCchar  30m   echo  white Test 1 is NOT in a FOR loop nor within parentheses  and color works right     echo  yellow  Test 1   green This is Green   magenta this is Magenta  and  yellow this is Yellow     echo  Next  the string  success  will be piped to FINDSTR       echo success   findstr  R success    echo  magenta This is magenta and FINDSTR found and displayed  success   yellow     echo  green This is green  echo  cyan Test 1 completed   echo  white Test 2 is within parentheses  and color stops working after the pipe to FINDSTR     echo  yellow  Test 2   green This is Green   magenta this is Magenta  and  yellow this is Yellow     echo  Next  the string  success  will be piped to FINDSTR       echo success   findstr  R success    echo  magenta This is supposed to be magenta and FINDSTR found and displayed  success      echo  green This is supposed to be green    echo  cyan Test 2 completed   echo  white Test 3 is within a FOR loop  and color stops working after the pipe to FINDSTR  for  L   G in  3 1 3  do      echo  yellow  Test   G   green This is Green   magenta this is Magenta  and  yellow this is Yellow     echo  Next  the string  success  will be piped to FINDSTR       echo success   findstr  R success    echo  magenta This is supposed to be magenta and FINDSTR found and displayed  success      echo  green This is supposed to be green    echo  cyan Test 3 completed   echo  white Test 4 is in a FOR loop but color works right because subroutine  resetANSI is  echo called after the pipe to FINDSTR  before the next color code is used  for  L   G in  4 1 4  do      echo  yellow  Test   G   green This is Green   magenta this is Magenta  and  yellow this is Yellow     echo  Next  the string  success  will be piped to FINDSTR       echo success   findstr  R success    call  resetANSI    echo  magenta This is magenta and FINDSTR found and displayed  success      echo  green This is green    echo  cyan Test 4 completed  white   EXIT  B

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You can use the color command to change the color of the whole console  Color 0F   Is black and white  Color 0A    Is black and green

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To get this working on Windows 10  you can enable this flag  ENABLE VIRTUAL TERMINAL PROCESSING   With this registry key you can set this by default   HKCU Console  VirtualTerminalLevel dword 0x1

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The following code consists of two parts  If it is convenient for you too  there is also a  txt format in this  cmd file  below the  quot double quot  line           adonios77   This is a  cmd file  ECHO OFF TITLE Colored Command Prompt echoes HELP mode con  cols 55 lines 47 CLS COLOR 0f  echo  93m ECHO This is just help  as optical example  ECHO when make or modify colorful command prompt echoes  ECHO  ECHO More info in Source  ECHO  4m 94mhttps   stackoverflow com questions 2048509 how-to-echo-with-different-colors-in-the-windows-command-line 0m  ECHO  ECHO  0mESC 0m  quot Text quot  Default colours Text 0m ECHO  7mESC 7m  quot Text quot  Inversed Back-Fore colors 0m  ECHO  101mESC 101m  quot Text quot  in Red Background 0m ECHO  91mESC 91m  quot Text quot  in Red Foreground  0m  echo  echo To make an ESC special character   ASCII Escape code  echo open or edit a  txt or  bat or  cmd file  echo  hold L-Alt and  type 027 in NumPad  echo Or  in Command Prompt   can t copy paste special char   echo just press Ctrl    echo   it should look like   quot echo    33m Text    0m quot   echo   echo STYLES echo  0mESC 0m Reset 0m echo  1mESC 1m Bold  90m This is not work for me 0m echo  4mESC 4m Underline 0m echo  7mESC 7m 0m Inverse echo   echo COLORS   Foreground-Background  color    HEX   amp  amp  echo  echo            90mDark 0m           100mLight 0m echo        Fore-Back      Fore-Back echo Black       100m 30m30 0m- 4m 40m40   0m    0     8   90m90 0m- 100m100  0m echo Red         31m31 0m- 41m41   0m    4     C   91m91 0m- 101m101  0m echo Green       32m32 0m- 42m42   0m    2     A   92m92 0m- 102m102  0m echo Yellow          33m33 0m- 90m 43m43   0m    6     E   93m93 0m- 90m 103m103  0m echo Blue        34m34 0m- 44m44   0m    1     9   94m94 0m- 104m104  0m echo Magenta     35m35 0m- 45m45   0m    5     D   95m95 0m- 105m105  0m echo Cyan        36m36 0m- 46m46   0m    3     B   96m96 0m- 106m106  0m echo White       37m37 0m- 47m47   0m    7     F   97m97 0m- 7 97m107  0m echo   echo Note  use ESC 0m at the end of  every  line  echo   echo COMBINATIONS echo  7 91mESC 7 91m inverse red foreground color ESC 0m 0m echo    ECHO   amp  amp  PAUSE exit                                                                  This is a  txt file   This is just help  as optical example   when make or modify colorful command prompt echoes    More info in Source  https   stackoverflow com questions 2048509 how-to-echo-with-different-colors-in-the-windows-command-line  To make an ESC special character      open or edit a  txt or  bat or  cmd file   hold L-Alt and  type 027 in NumPad   STYLES  0m Reset  1m Bold  4m Underline  7m Inverse  COLORS    Foreground-Background              Dark              Light         Fore-Back           Fore-Back Black       30-40    0     8    90-100 Red         31-41    4     C    91-101 Green       32-42    2     A    92-102 Yellow      33-43    6     E    93-103 Blue        34-44    1     9    94-104 Magenta     35-45    5     D    95-105 Cyan        36-46    3     B    96-106 White       37-47    7     F    97-107  COMBINATIONS ESC 7 31m inverse red foreground color 0m  Note  use ESC 0m at the end of  every  line   examples   ECHO OFF ECHO          Default Text ECHO  7m quot Text quot  Inversed Back-Fore colors  7m  0m  ECHO  101m quot Text quot  in Red Background  101m  0m ECHO  91m quot Text quot  in Red Foreground  91m  0m                                                                Also  I figured out that with this way can be change the way the Command Prompt looks like  temporarily or permanently  The following TEXT code is an example of    This is a  txt file    Antony s examples   prompt  Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q S  T    P    G   gives something like that                         19 53 02 73  C  Windows system32   gt    For All Users  amp  Permanent    if there is space between characters  must double quoted   quot  quot    SETX PROMPT  M  Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q S S T     S P    G S  gives something like that                          9 01 23 17   C  Windows system32   gt    NOTE  Variables created or modified by SETX          will be available at the next logon session    Now let s give colors to the above examples  The result in the image above  COLORED PROMPT examples  For only the current User  prompt  E 91m E 40m Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q S  T E 93m    P    G E 0m  or For All Users and Permanently  SETX PROMPT  M  E 91m E 40m Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q S S T E 93m     S P    G S E 0m

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This isn t a great answer  but if you know the target workstation has Powershell you can do something like this  assuming BAT   CMD script    CALL ECHORED  Print me in red     ECHORED  Windir  System32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0 Powershell exe write-host -foregroundcolor Red  1 goto eof     Edit   now simpler    It s an old answer but I figured I d clarify  amp  simplify a bit    PowerShell is now included in all versions of Windows since 7   Therefore the syntax for this answer can be shortened to a simpler form    the path doesn t need to be specified since it should be in the environment variable already  unambiguous commands can be abbreviated  For example you can    use -fore instead of -foregroundcolor use -back instead of -backgroundcolor  the command can also basically be used  inline  in place of echo  rather than creating a separate batch file as above       Example   powershell write-host -fore Cyan This is Cyan text powershell write-host -back Red This is Red background     More Information   The complete list of colors and more information is available in the - PowerShell Documentation for Write-Host

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Put the following lines into a file called ColourText bas on your desktop   Imports System Imports System IO Imports System Runtime InteropServices Imports Microsoft Win32  Public Module MyApplication   Public Declare Function GetStdHandle Lib  kernel32  Alias  GetStdHandle   ByVal nStdHandle As Long  As Long Public Declare Function SetConsoleTextAttribute Lib  kernel32  Alias  SetConsoleTextAttribute   ByVal hConsoleOutput As Long  ByVal wAttributes As Long  As Long Public Const STD ERROR HANDLE   -12 amp  Public Const STD INPUT HANDLE   -10 amp  Public Const STD OUTPUT HANDLE   -11 amp   Sub Main       Dim hOut as Long     Dim Ret as Long     Dim Colour As Long     Dim Colour1 As Long     Dim Text As String     hOut    GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE      Colour   CLng   amp h   amp  Split Command         0       Colour1   Clng   amp h   amp  Split Command         1       Text   Mid Command    7      Ret   SetConsoleTextAttribute hOut   Colour      Console Out WriteLine text      Ret   SetConsoleTextAttribute hOut  Colour1  End Sub End Module   Save it and type the following in a command prompt    C  Windows Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319 vbc exe   target exe  out   userprofile  desktop ColourText exe    userprofile  desktop ColourText bas   verbose   A file called ColourText exe will appear on your desktop  Move it to the Windows folder   To use you must use two character codes to set colour eg 01 not 1    ColourText ColourOfText ColourOfTextWhenFinished Text   EG To set blue on white by not passing any text  then red on white text  finishing with blue on grey   ColourText F1 F1 ColourText F2 71 This is green on white   or  ColourText F1 F1 cls ColourText F4 F4 Echo Hello Echo Hello today ColourText F1 F1   Also the CLS command becomes interesting  Color command without parameters resets all colours to startup colours   To get the colour code add the following numbers together  Use Calculator in programmers mode  These are hex numbers  They can be added together eg Red   Blue   FG Intensity   13   D  As 10  wasn t used the background will be black  Colour codes MUST be two characters  eg 08 not 8   FOREGROUND RED    amp H4        text color contains red  FOREGROUND INTENSITY    amp H8        text color is intensified  FOREGROUND GREEN    amp H2        text color contains green  FOREGROUND BLUE    amp H1        text color contains blue  BACKGROUND BLUE    amp H10       background color contains blue  BACKGROUND GREEN    amp H20       background color contains green  BACKGROUND INTENSITY    amp H80       background color is intensified  BACKGROUND RED    amp H40       background color contains red

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I was annoyed by the lack of proper coloring in cmd too  so I went ahead and created cmdcolor  It s just an stdout proxy  which looks for a limited set of ANSI VT100 control sequences  in other words  like in bash   i e  echo  033 31m RED  033 0m DEFAULT   cmdcolor exe   Usage and downloads

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call  color echo  blue   blue txt  call  color echo  red   red txt  echo  white txt    REM   https   www robvanderwoude com ansi php  color echo      echo off      set  color   1      set  txt   2       set ESC      set black  ESC  30m     set red  ESC  31m     set green  ESC  32m     set yellow  ESC  33m     set blue  ESC  34m     set magenta  ESC  35m     set cyan  ESC  36m     set white  ESC  37m      if    1      black    set  color  black       if    1      red      set  color  red       if    1      green    set  color  green       if    1      yellow   set  color  yellow       if    1      blue     set  color  blue       if    1      magenta  set  color  magenta       if    1      cyan     set  color  cyan       if    1      white    set  color  white        echo   set  p   color  txt       echo       REM   return to standard white color     echo   set  p   white        REM   exiting the function only     EXIT  B 0

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You ll need to echo an ANSI escape code sequence to alter the text colour  http   en wikipedia org wiki ANSI escape code  Another very good source of these escape codes is http   ascii-table com ansi-escape-sequences php

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Setting color to the log statements in powershell is not a big deal friend  you can use -ForegroundColor parameter   To write a confirmation message   Write-Host  Process executed Successfully      -ForegroundColor Magenta   To write an error message   Write-Host  Sorry an unexpected error occurred    -ForegroundColor Red   To write a progress message   Write-Host  Working under pocess     -ForegroundColor Green

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An alternative is to use NodeJS   Here is an example   const os   require  os    const colors   require  colors     console log  Operative System   green os type   os release     console log  Uptime   blue os uptime       And this is the result

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We used to do this with ANSI terminal codes   Not sure if they still work  but you could try them

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I just converted from Win 7 Home to Win 10 Pro and wanted to replace the batch I call from other batches to echo info in color  Reviewing what is discussed above I use the following which will directly replace my previous batch  NOTE the addition of     to the message so that messages with spaces may be used  Instead of remembering codes I use letters for the colors I needed   If  2 contains spaces requires        1 Strong Colors on black  R Red G GREEN Y YELLOW  W WHITE  ECHO OFF IF   1    R  ECHO   91m  2 0m IF   1    G  ECHO   92m  2 0m IF   1    Y  ECHO   93m  2 0m IF   1    W  ECHO   97m  2 0m

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Windows 10 - TH2 and above   a k a  Version 1511  build 10586  release 2015-11-10  At Command Prompt  echo    32m HI    0m  Using the actual keys       echo Ctrl   32m HI  Ctrl   0mEnter You should see a green  quot HI quot  below it  Code numbers can be found here   https   en wikipedia org wiki ANSI escape code Colors  Notepad  To save this into notepad  you can type ESC into it using  Alt 027 with the numpad  then the  32m part   Another trick when I was on a laptop  redirect the line above into a file to get started  then cut and paste  echo echo    32m HI    0m  gt  gt  batch file cmd

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You could use ANSICON to enable ANSI terminal codes in older versions of Windows   There are 32 and 64 bit versions that I have used in Windows XP and Windows 7

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you could use cecho   you can also use it to embed right into your script so you dont have to carry along a  com or  exe  http   www codeproject com Articles 17033 Add-Colors-to-Batch-Files

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An option for non windows 10 users that doesn t require calling labels  avoiding the delays that go with doing so  Below is a macro verison of a findstr colorprint routine usage - where BF is replaced with the hex digit values of the background   Foreground colors   Col  BF   quot string to print quot    Echo off  amp  CD  quot  TEMP  quot   For  F  quot tokens 1 2 delims   quot    a in    quot prompt   H  E   amp  echo on  amp  for   b in  1  do rem quot    do  set  quot DEL   a quot    Set  quot Col For   l in  1 2 Do if   l  2  Set  quot  Str  quot  amp  For  F  quot tokens 1 2 Delims    quot    G in   quot  oline  quot  Do Set  quot C Out   G quot   amp  Set  quot  Str    H quot   amp  For   s in    Str  Do Set  quot  Str   s quot   amp    lt nul set  p  quot    DEL  quot   gt   quot   Str  quot    amp   findstr  v  a  C Out   R  quot    quot   quot   Str  quot  nul   amp   del  quot    Str  quot   gt  nul 2 gt  amp 1   Else Set Oline  quot   Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion rem    concatenation of multiple macro expansions requires the macro to be expanded within it s own code block        Col  02   quot green on black  quot     amp    Col  10  black on blue    Echo  amp    Col  04  red on black    amp    Col  34   quot  red on blue quot    Goto  Eof  A more robust version of the macro replete with error handling   Echo off  amp  PUSHD  quot  TEMP  quot  rem    Macro Definitions     Set   n        macro newline Do not modify       Set LF        linefeed  Do not modify      If  quot     quot      quot   quot      Echo   COL   macro must be defined prior to delayed expansion being enabled   Goto  end     For  F  quot tokens 1 2 delims   quot    a in    quot prompt   H  E   amp  echo on  amp  for   b in  1  do rem quot    do  set  quot DEL   a quot   rem     hCol  - Alternate color macro  escaped for use in COL macro  No error checking  Usage    hCol   HEXVALUE Output String      Set  quot hCol For   o in  1 2 Do if   o  2    lt nul set  p  quot    DEL  quot    gt   quot  os  quot    amp  findstr  v  a    R  quot    quot   quot  os  quot  nul   amp  del  quot  os  quot    gt  nul 2  gt   amp 1  Else Set os  quot  rem     TB    - used with substitution within COL macro to format help output  not fit for general use      Set  quot TB   amp   lt  nul Set  P  quot    DEL  TAB  quot   amp  quot  rem     COL   - main color output macro  Usage    COL   a-f0-9  a-f0-9   String to Print       Set COL Set  quot  v 1 quot   amp Set  quot Oline  quot   amp  For   l in  1 2 Do if   l  2    n    If not  quot  Oline  quot      quot  quot     n     Set  quot  Str  quot   n     For  F  quot tokens 1 2 Delims    quot    G in   quot  oline  quot  Do    n      Set  quot Hex   G quot   n      Set  quot  Str    H quot   n        n     Echo  Hex   findstr  RX  quot  0-9a-fA-F  0-9a-fA-F  quot    gt  nul       Echo   amp   hCol   04 Invalid -   TB   hCol   06 Bad Hex value   TB   hCol   01   COL    Hex     Str    TB TAB LF   hCol   02  Usage    amp Set  quot  Str  quot   amp Set  quot  v 0 quot    n     If not  quot   Str  quot      quot  quot     n        lt nul set  p  quot    DEL  quot    gt   quot   Str  quot   n      findstr  v  a  Hex   R  quot    quot   quot   Str  quot  nul   n      del  quot   Str  quot    gt  nul 2  gt   amp 1  n      Else If not   v  EQU 0    n      Echo   amp   hCol   04 Invalid -  TB   hCol   06 Arg 2 absent   TB   hCol   01   COL   Oline   TB TAB LF   hCol   04 Input is required for output string   TB TAB LF   hCol   02  Usage    n        n     Else  Echo   amp   hCol   04 Invalid -  TB   hCol   06 No Args  TB TAB  TAB  TAB    hCol   01   COL   Oline   TB TAB LF   hCol   02  Usage     n    Else Set Oline   Set  quot usage   COL    a-f0-9  a-f0-9   String to Print  quot   For  F eol    LF  LF   delims     A in   forfiles  p  quot   dp0  quot   m  quot   nx0 quot   c  quot cmd  c echo 0x09 quot    do Set  quot TAB   A quot  rem    removes escaping from macros to enable use outside of COL macro     Set  quot hCol  hCol     quot   Set  quot TB  TB     quot   Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion  rem    usage examples       COL  02   quot green on black  quot     amp    COL  10   quot black on blue quot     Echo     COL  04   quot red on black quot     amp    COL  34   quot  red on blue quot    amp   COL  40   quot black on red quot     Echo  amp   COL  03  Demonstration of error handling-  rem    error handling     Echo  TB TAB  LF     hCol   20 Example 1 - No args  COL   Echo  TB TAB  LF     hCol   20 Example 2 - Missing 2nd Arg  COL  ff   Echo  TB TAB  LF     hCol   20 Example 3 - Invalid hex value for 1st Arg  COL  HF  string   Echo  TB TAB  LF     hCol   0d Done  end POPD Goto  Eof

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As Glenn Slayden said in this answer  you can add to the registry the proper value to make the cmd  more colorful       Fortunately  the global default can be changed from opt-in to opt-out  The registry key at HKEY CURRENT USER Console VirtualTerminalLevel sets the global default behavior for processing ANSI escape sequences  Create a DWORD key  if necessary  and set its value to 1 to globally enable  or 0 to disable   ANSI processing by default

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An advanced Macro for handling Cursor Color  Position and properties For Windows 10  Please refer to the help and usage examples for information on usage  Supports and Shows examples of   Cursor Positioning  Absolute Relative to last Cursor Position   left right by n columns   up down by n lines Combinations of Relative and Absolute Position    Show   Hide Cursor Cursor Graphics properties   Color   Foreground and Background    Same line multicolor output Easily chain multiple VT graphics sequences    Clearing of all text on a line from a given position  Deletion of a number of characters to the right of the cursor on the current line  Optionally Save the Cursor position at the time of expansion as independent Y and X values    Save Cursor position storing component of the macro adpated from Jeb s answer here   NEW  Switching between Screen buffers    Edit  I ve included below the final usage example a command line that uses VT codes to achieve the same result as that example  to illustrate the difference in readability when using multiple Terminal sequences in the same Cursor output  NOTES On changing Buffers  Cursor position is tied to the active buffer  It is not availale when switching to an alternate buffer  When reverting to the main buffer  The cursor position originally occupied in the main buffer is restored  and the content of the alternate buffer is discarded       Cout cursor Macro  Author  T3RRY     Filename  Cout bat     OS requirement  Windows 10     Purpose  Facilitate advanced console display output with the easy use of Virtual terminal codes     Uses a macro function to effect display without users needing to memorise or learn specific     virtual terminal sequences      Enables output of text in 255 bit color at absolute or relative Y X positions      Allows cursor to be hidden or shown during and after text output  See help for more info    Echo off  amp  Setlocal EnableExtensions                                                   Usage  If not  quot   1 quot      quot  quot  Echo   1  findstr  LIC  quot    quot   gt  nul  amp  amp      If  quot   2 quot      quot  quot   Cls  amp   Mode 1000 50  amp  Color 30    If  quot   2 quot      quot Usage quot    Color 04  amp    Echo n choice  n  C o 2 gt  nul    amp  timeout  T 5  gt  nul     If  quot   2 quot      quot DE quot    Color 04  amp  Echo                       --- Delayed expansion detected     Must not be enabled prior to calling   n0 --- amp   Echo n choice  n  C o 2 gt  nul      If not Exist  quot  TEMP    n0helpfile  tmp quot   For  F  quot Delims  quot    G in   Type  quot   f0 quot    Findstr exe  BLIC  quot     quot  2  gt  nul   Do      For  F  quot Tokens 2  Delims    quot    v in   quot   G quot  Do Echo     v        gt  quot  TEMP    n0helpfile  tmp quot    Type  quot  TEMP    n0helpfile  tmp quot    More   timeout  T 60  gt  nul   Color 07   If  quot   2 quot      quot DE quot   Exit Else Exit  B 1     If  quot     quot      quot   quot  Call  quot   f0 quot   quot    quot   quot DE quot                                                                                                                                  cout                                                                                                                        COUT  Cursor output macro                                                                                                   Valid Args for COUT    Y Argvalue    X Argvalue    S Argvalue    C Argvalue                                                    - Args Must be encased in curly braces  Arg order does not matter   Each Arg is optional                               Valid Switches for COUT   Save  Alt  Main                                                                                 Save - Stores the Y and X position at the start of the current expansion to  lY and  lX variables                          Alt  - Switch console to alternate screen Buffer  Persists until  Main switch is used                                      Main - Restore console to main screen Buffer  Console default is the main buffer                                                                                                                                                                       USAGE                                                                                                                      ArgValue Options       is an integer                                                                                         Y up down      Y up  down       Y  up  down      X left right      X left  right       X  left  right                     note    Y option    X option  - 1 option only per Arg                                                                          - directions   up   down   left   right  are relative to the cursors last position                                          -  Y and  X options -  direction or direction                                                                                Positions the cursor a number of cells from the current position in the given direction                                    Example  To move the cursor 5 rows up in the same column  without displaying any new text                                    COUT   Y 5up                                                                                                          -      Absolute position  is the column number   X    or row number   Y    the cursor                                         Integers for absolute positions contained in variables must be Expanded    Y  varname                                      is to be positioned at  allowing cursor position to be set on single or multiple axis                                      Absolute Y and X positions capped at line and column maximum of the console display                                        Exceeding the maximum Y positions the cursor at the start of the last line in the console display                          Exceeding the maximum X positions the cursor at the start of the next line                                                                                                                                                                      S Output String    S  - Output String    S Output String       S Output String K     S Output String                      note   -  Hide or     Show the Cursor during output of the string                                                                 K  Clears the row of text from the position  K  occurs                                                                    Example  Delete 5 characters from the current row to the right of the curser                                                 COUT   S   5                                                                                                        C VTcode    C VTcode-VTcode    C VTcode-VTcode-VTcode                                                                     note  Chain multiple graphics rendition codes using  -                                                                   See       https   docs microsoft com en-us windows console console-virtual-terminal-sequences text-formatting              See also  https   www rapidtables com web color RGB Color html                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     PreScript variable definitions  rem    generate Vitual Terminal Escape Control  Character     For  F   a in    Echo prompt  E    cmd   Do Set  quot  E   a quot  rem    https   docs microsoft com en-us windows console console-virtual-terminal-sequences     Set  n         Newline variable for macro definitions  DO NOT MODIFY this line or above 2 lines                             Screen Dimensions  Customise columns lines using the mode command    Mode 160 38  amp  Cls rem    Get screen dimensions  lines   columns   Must be done before delayed expansion is enabled      For  F  quot tokens 1 2 Delims   quot    G in   Mode  Do For   b in    H Do For   a in    G Do Set  quot   a   b quot   rem    NON ENGLISH VERSION USERS  You will need to manually set Columns and lines for their desired console size     If not defined columns  Set  quot columns 100 quot  amp  Set  quot lines 30 quot    rem    Cursor position codes - https   docs microsoft com en-us windows console console-virtual-terminal-sequences simple-cursor-positioning     Set  quot left D quot  amp Set  quot right C quot  amp Set  quot up A quot  amp set  quot down B quot   For  L   n in  1 1  lines  Do  Set  quot   ndown    nB quot  amp Set  quot down  n    nB quot  amp  set  quot   nup    nA quot  amp Set  quot up  n    nA quot    For  L   n in  1 1  columns  Do  Set  quot   nleft    nD quot  amp Set  quot left  n    nD quot  amp set  quot   nright    nC quot  amp set  quot right  n    nC quot       Catch Args          Set COUT For   n in  1 2 Do If   n  2     n     Test No Args         If  quot  Args  quot      quot  quot   CLS  amp Echo Usage Error  Args Required    amp  Call  quot   f0 quot   quot    quot   quot Usage quot       Exit  B 1    n     Test Braces Used     If  quot  Args     quot      quot  Args  quot   CLS  amp Echo Usage Error  Args must be enclosed in curly braces   amp  Call  quot   f0 quot   quot    quot   quot Usage quot       Exit  B 1    n     Reset macro          Set  quot  Y  quot    amp  Set  quot  X  quot    amp  Set  quot  Str  quot    amp  Set  quot  C  quot    n      internal vars       Set  quot Arg1  quot    amp  Set  quot Arg2  quot    amp  Set  quot Arg3  quot    amp  Set  quot Arg4  quot    n     Split Args           For  F  quot Tokens 1 2 3 4 Delims    quot    1 in   quot  Args  quot  Do     n     Substring             Set  quot Arg1    1 quot    n      modification         Set  quot Arg2    2 quot    n      identifies Args      Set  quot Arg3    3 quot    n      during handling      Set  quot Arg4    4 quot    n                              n     Check  Save switch   If not  quot  Args  Save   quot      quot  Args  quot     n     Reset Cursor Save     Set  quot  Cpos  quot    amp Set  quot  Char  quot   n     10 char max  Repeat   For  L   l in  2 1 12 Do    n     until R returned       If not  quot   Char  quot      quot R quot     n     from esc 6n              lt nul set  p  quot    E  6n quot    n     Redirects to            FOR  L   z in  1 1   l  DO pause   lt  CON   gt  NUL  n     prevent blocking        Set  quot  Char   quot   n     script execution        for  F  quot tokens 1 skip 1 delims   quot    C in    quot REPLACE  W      lt  con quot    DO  Set  quot  Char   C quot    n     Append string w out R   If  quot   Cpos  quot      quot  quot   Set  quot  Cpos   Char  quot  Else  set  quot  Cpos   Cpos   Char R   quot     n                               n                              n     Split Captured Pos    For  F  quot tokens 1 2 Delims   quot    X in   quot   Cpos  quot  Do Set  quot  lY   X quot    amp  Set  quot  LX   Y quot    n     End of Pos  Save        n     Begin Arg            For   i in  1 2 3 4 Do For   S in  Y X C S Do If not  quot  Arg  i  quot      quot  quot      n     Processing  4 Args     If not  quot  Arg  i    S    quot      quot  Arg  i  quot      n     Flagged with Y X C S    Set  quot Arg  i  Arg  i    S    quot    n     Strip  Flag In Arg      For   v in   quot  Arg  i  quot  Do     n      Y Lines Arg handling    If  quot   S quot      quot Y quot      n     Test if arg is variable   If Not  quot     v  quot      quot  quot      n     assign down   up value     Set  quot  Y   E     v  quot    n     -OR-                       Else     n     assign using operation     Set  A  quot  Y  Arg  i  quot    n     to allow use of offsets    If   Y  GEQ  Lines   Set  A  quot  Y Lines-1 quot     n     constrained to console     Set  quot  Y   E    Y d quot    n     maximum lines                 n      X Cols Arg handling     If  quot   S quot      quot X quot      n     processing follows same   If Not  quot     v  quot      quot  quot      n     logic as  Y               Set  quot  X   E     v  quot    n     except if Columns        Else     n     exceed console max       Set  A  quot  X  Arg  i  quot    n     columns line wrapping     If   X  GEQ  Columns   Set  quot  X 1 quot   amp  Set  quot  Y   E  Down  quot     n     is effected               Set  quot  X   E    X G quot    n                                  n      C Color Arg Handling   If  quot   S quot      quot C quot      n     Substituition            Set  quot  C   E   Arg  i  quot    n     replaces  -  with VT     Set  quot  C   C - m  E    quot    n     chain - m E              Set  quot  C   C m quot    n                                 n      S String Arg Handle    If  quot   S quot      quot S quot      n      Substitute Sub-Args     Set  quot  Str  Arg  i  quot    n       -  hide cursor          Set  quot  Str   Str  -    E   25l  quot    n          show cursor          Set  quot  Str   Str       E   25h  quot    n       K  clear line           Set  quot  Str   Str  K    E  K  quot    n            delete   of        Set  quot  Str   Str      E    quot    n      characters               Set  quot  Str   Str    P  quot    n                                 n     End Arg Handling           n      Main  Alt Switch    If not  quot  Args  Main   quot      quot  Args  quot      n     handling for           lt  nul Set  P  quot    E   1049l  Y   X   C   Str   E  0m quot    n     switching console     Else If not  quot  Args  Alt   quot      quot  Args  quot      n     buffers  No Switch     lt  nul Set  P  quot    E   1049h  Y   X   C   Str   E  0m quot    n     outputs to current    Else     lt  nul Set  P  quot    Y   X   C   Str   E  0m quot      n     buffer               Else Set Args  rem    Simple subsecond delay macro  Uses call to a non existentent label   number of times to delay script execution      For  F  quot tokens 1 2 delims   quot    G in   wmic cpu get maxclockspeed  format value  Do Set  A  quot   G   H 20 quot  2 gt  nul  If not defined Maxclockspeed Set  quot Maxclockspeed 200 quot   Set  quot Hash   quot  amp  Set  quot delay  If  quot  Hash  quot      quot   quot   Set  A  quot Delay len Maxclockspeed quot  Else Set  quot Delay len   quot   amp  For  L   i in  1 1  Delay Len  Do call    false-label   2 gt  Nul quot                                                     Script Body  Demo  rem    Enable Delayed Expansion after macro definiton in order to expand macro      Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion  amp  CD  quot  TEMP  quot  rem    Usage examples      COUT   X 10   Y 5   C 34   quot  S  - hello there     quot     Delay  rem    Example use of mixed foreground   background color and other graphics rendition properties      COUT   quot  C 31-1-4-48 2 0 80 130 quot    S Bye for now    Y down    Delay    COUT   Y up   C 35   S again   X 16    Delay    COUT   quot  S  K     quot    X right   C 32   Y down   Save   Delay  rem    Switch to Alternate screen buffer   Alt      COUT   quot  S  -  K o o quot    X  lX 1   Y 6   C 33   Y down   Alt   Delay    COUT   quot  S Don t worry  they ll be back quot    Y down   X 15left   C 7-31  rem    Cursor position is tied to the active console buffer  The contents of the Alternate buffer are discarded when reverting to the Main buffer       Delay  rem    Return to Main screen buffer   Main      COUT   X 3left   Y 5up   quot  S That s all folks  quot    Save  Main rem    Cursor position is tied to the active console buffer       Delay  rem    restore cursor position  Save  lX value with  7 offset   Overwrite all and delete 6 following characters   6     restore cursor               COUT   X 10left   S How  6        C 32  rem    The same as the above line using VT codes manually           lt nul Set  P  quot    E  10D  E  32mHow  E  6P  E   25l quot    Delay    COUT   Y 100   Endlocal  Goto  eof

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I looked at this because I wanted to introduce some simple text colors to a Win7 Batch file  This is what I came up with   Thanks for your help    echo off cls  amp  amp  color 08  rem      the following line creates a  DEL   ASCII 8   Backspace  character to use later rem      All this to remove     for  F  tokens 1 2 delims      a in    prompt   H  E   amp  echo on  amp  for   b in  1  do rem    do  set  DEL   a    echo    lt nul set  p     call  PainText 09  BLUE is cold      amp  amp   lt nul set  p        call  PainText 02  GREEN is earth    amp  amp   lt nul set  p        call  PainText F0  BLACK is night    amp  amp   lt nul set  p     echo   lt nul set  p     call  PainText 04  RED is blood      amp  amp   lt nul set  p        call  PainText 0e  YELLOW is pee     amp  amp   lt nul set  p        call  PainText 0F  WHITE all colors  amp  amp   lt nul set  p      goto  end   PainText  lt nul set  p    DEL    gt     2  findstr  v  a  1  R        2  nul del    2   gt  nul goto  eof   end echo  pause

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There is an accepted answer with more than 250 upvotes already  The reason I am still contributing is that the escape character required for echoing is not accepted by many editors  I am using  e g   MS Code  and all other solutions require some third-party  non-Windows-default  pieces of software   The work-around with using only plain batch commands is using PROMPT instead of ECHO  The PROMPT command accepts the escape character in an any-editor-friendly way as a  Echaracter sequence   Simply replace the Esc in the ASCII Escape codes  with  E   Here is a demo code    ECHO OFF         Do not pollute environment with the  prompt bak  variable          forgetting ENDLOCAL at the end of the batch leads to prompt corruption     SETLOCAL         Old prompt settings backup     SET prompt bak  PROMPT          Entering the  ECHO -like section             Forcing prompt to display after every command  see below          ECHO ON             Setting the prompt using the ANSI Escape sequence s             - Always start with  E 1A  otherwise the text would appear on a next line            - Then the decorated text follows            - And it all ends with  E30 40m  which makes the following command invisible              - assuming default background color of the screen           PROMPT  E 1A E 30 42mHELLO E 30 40m             An  empty  command that forces the prompt to display              The word  rem  is displayed along with the prompt text but is made invisible         rem             Just another text to display           PROMPT  E 1A E 33 41mWORLD E 30 40m         rem             Leaving the  ECHO -like section          ECHO OFF         Or a more readable version utilizing the cursor manipulation ASCII ESC sequences             the initial sequence         PROMPT  E 1A            formating commands         PROMPT  PROMPT  E 32 44m            the text         PROMPT  PROMPT This is an  ECHO ed text               new line  2000 is to move to the left  a lot          PROMPT  PROMPT  E 1B E 2000D            formating commands fro the next line         PROMPT  PROMPT  E 33 47m            the text  new line          PROMPT  PROMPT    spreading over two lines            the closing sequence         PROMPT  PROMPT  E 30 40m             Looks like this without the intermediate comments             PROMPT  E 1A            PROMPT  PROMPT  E 32 44m            PROMPT  PROMPT This is an  ECHO ed text               PROMPT  PROMPT  E 1B E 2000D            PROMPT  PROMPT  E 33 47m            PROMPT  PROMPT    spreading over two lines            PROMPT  PROMPT  E 30 40m             show it all at once          ECHO ON         rem          ECHO OFF         End of  ECHO -ing         Setting prompt back to its original value        - We prepend the settings with  E 37 40m in case          the original prompt settings do not specify color           as they don t by default          - If they do  the  E 37 40m will become overridden  anyway           It is important to write this command           as it is with  ENDLOCAL  and in the   amp   form      ENDLOCAL  amp  PROMPT  E 37 40m prompt bak   EXIT  B 0   NOTE  The only drawback is that this technique collides with user cmd color settings  color command or settings  if not known explicitly   -- Hope this helps as thi is the only solution acceptable for me for the reasons mentioned at the beginning  --  EDIT   Based on comments  I am enclosing another snippet inspired by  Jeb  It    Shows how to obtain and use the  Esc  character runtime  rather than entering it to an editor   Jeb s solution  Uses  native  ECHO command s  So it does not affect local PROMPT value Demonstrates that coloring the ECHO output inevitably affect PROMPT color so the color must be reset  anyway    ECHO OFF           To observe color effects on prompt below in this script          run the script from a fresh cmd window with no custom          prompt settings         Only not to pollute the environment with the   e  variable  see below         Not needed because of the  PROMPT  variable     SETLOCAL             Parsing the  escape  character  ASCII 27  to a   e  variable            Use   e  in place of  Esc  in the  http   ascii-table com ansi-escape-sequences php          FOR  F  delims      E IN    prompt   E   amp  FOR   E IN  1  DO rem    DO SET   e   E              Demonstrate that prompt did not get corrupted by the previous FOR         ECHO ON         rem   After for          ECHO OFF             Some fancy ASCII ESC staff         ECHO                      FOR  L   G IN  1 1 10  DO               TIMEOUT  T 1  gt  NUL             ECHO   e  1A  e    GC  e  31 43m              ECHO   e  1A  e  11C  e  37 40m                        ECHO another decorated text            - notice the    e  30C  cursor positioning sequence              for the sake of the  After ECHO  test below         ECHO   e  1A  e  13C  e  32 47mHELLO WORLD  e  30C             Demonstrate that prompt did not get corrupted by ECHOing            neither does the cursor positioning take effect               But the color settings do          ECHO ON         rem   After ECHO          ECHO OFF      ENDLOCAL         Demonstrate that color settings do not reset        even when out of the SETLOCAL scope     ECHO ON     rem   After ENDLOCAL      ECHO OFF         Reset the  PROMPT  color        -  PROMPT  itself is untouched so we did not need to backup it         - Still ECHOING in color apparently collide with user color cmd settings  if any            Resetting  PROMPT  color this way extends the  PROMPT           by the initial   E 37 40m  sequence every time the script runs         - Better solution then would be to end every  or last   ECHO  command          with the    e  37 40m  sequence and avoid setting  PROMPT  altogether           which makes this technique preferable to the previous one  before EDIT         - I am keeping it this way only to be able to          demonstrate the  ECHO  color effects on the  PROMPT  above      PROMPT  E 37 40m PROMPT       ECHO ON     rem   After PROMPT color reset      ECHO OFF  EXIT  B 0

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for me i found some solutions  it is a working solution        echo off     title a game for youtube  explorer  quot https   thepythoncoding blogspot com 2020 11 how-to-echo-with-different-colors-in html quot      SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion     for  F  quot tokens 1 2 delims   quot    a in    quot prompt   H  E   amp  echo on  amp  for   b in  1  do rem quot    do         set  quot DEL   a quot            echo say the name of the colors  don t read          call  ColorText 0a  quot blue quot      call  ColorText 0C  quot green quot      call  ColorText 0b  quot red quot      echo      call  ColorText 19  quot yellow quot       call  ColorText 2F  quot black quot      call  ColorText 4e  quot white quot           goto  Beginoffile           ColorText     echo off      lt nul set  p  quot    DEL  quot   gt   quot   2 quot      findstr  v  a  1  R  quot    quot   quot   2 quot  nul     del  quot   2 quot   gt  nul 2 gt  amp 1     goto  eof           Beginoffile

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I wanted to to print one single line in a different color   Use ANSI Escape Sequences  Windows before 10 - no native support for ANSI colors on the console For Windows version below 10  the Windows command console doesn t support output coloring by default  You could install either Cmder  ConEmu  ANSICON or Mintty  used by default in GitBash and Cygwin  to add coloring support to your Windows command console  Windows 10 - Command Line Colors Starting from Windows 10 the Windows console support ANSI Escape Sequences and some colors by default  The feature shipped with the Threshold 2 Update in Nov 2015  MSDN Documentation Update  05-2019   The ColorTool enables you to change the color scheme of the console  It s part of the Microsoft Terminal project  Demo  Batch Command The win10colors cmd was written by Michele Locati  The text below is stripped of special characters and will not work  You must copy it from here   echo off cls echo  101 93m STYLES  0m echo   lt ESC  gt  0m  0mReset 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  1m  1mBold 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  4m  4mUnderline 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  7m  7mInverse 0m echo  echo  101 93m NORMAL FOREGROUND COLORS  0m echo   lt ESC  gt  30m  30mBlack 0m  black  echo   lt ESC  gt  31m  31mRed 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  32m  32mGreen 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  33m  33mYellow 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  34m  34mBlue 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  35m  35mMagenta 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  36m  36mCyan 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  37m  37mWhite 0m echo  echo  101 93m NORMAL BACKGROUND COLORS  0m echo   lt ESC  gt  40m  40mBlack 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  41m  41mRed 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  42m  42mGreen 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  43m  43mYellow 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  44m  44mBlue 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  45m  45mMagenta 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  46m  46mCyan 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  47m  47mWhite 0m  white  echo  echo  101 93m STRONG FOREGROUND COLORS  0m echo   lt ESC  gt  90m  90mWhite 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  91m  91mRed 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  92m  92mGreen 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  93m  93mYellow 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  94m  94mBlue 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  95m  95mMagenta 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  96m  96mCyan 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  97m  97mWhite 0m echo  echo  101 93m STRONG BACKGROUND COLORS  0m echo   lt ESC  gt  100m  100mBlack 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  101m  101mRed 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  102m  102mGreen 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  103m  103mYellow 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  104m  104mBlue 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  105m  105mMagenta 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  106m  106mCyan 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  107m  107mWhite 0m echo  echo  101 93m COMBINATIONS  0m echo   lt ESC  gt  31m                      31mred foreground color 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  7m                       7minverse foreground   lt -  gt  background 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  7 31m                    7 31minverse red foreground color 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  7m and nested   lt ESC  gt  31m  7mbefore  31mnested 0m echo   lt ESC  gt  31m and nested   lt ESC  gt  7m  31mbefore  7mnested 0m

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