The ANSI/VT100 terminals and terminal emulators are not just able to display black and white text ; they can display colors and formatted texts thanks to escape sequences. Those sequences are composed of the Escape character (often represented by “^[
” or “<Esc>
”) followed by some other characters: “<Esc>[
FormatCodem
”.
In Bash, the <Esc>
character can be obtained with the following syntaxes:
-
`\e`