Someone made a really cool ASCII art image for my new Powerbook that I want to display when I open up a new terminal. Easy emough, I put the art into a file, then just have .profile run cat asciiart. Now here is the challenge. I want to add color to it, and so far I have not had much luck. I found bash has echo -e to allow ANSI escape sequences, but converting the art into bash echo statements is proving difficult. So many of the characters used are being picked up, resulting in messes like:

./test: command substitution: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `}'

./test: command substitution: line 1: `       } } '

./test: -: command not found

; /   , -.___      \| \|_) \| ___   ___ \| \| _   /      /~ 

./test: ,: command not found

./test: |/: No such file or directory

./test: ~.___,---}: command not found

./test: -,: command not found

Any useful web pages out there to show what I need to escape out in these echo commands? I haven't come across anything useful searching for the past half hour.

Thanks