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

/me engages tfabris post mode

Aha, got quite a bit closer using single quotes on the echo commands instead of double quotes. I just have 4 lines to fix now.

Or you could just embed the escape sequences in the file itself and continue to cat it.

Or you could just embed the escape sequences in the file itself and continue to cat it.

How? When I put the escape sequences of \033[34m , it simply spits it out to the console.

Did you put the four character string \033 or the single character 033/0x1B?

I put the string \033. Let me look up the command on this OS X machine to put it in as a single character.

Finally just game up and instead still made it an echo sequence, replacing all the characters with the escape code equivelents.

very pretty!

Let me look up the command on this OS X machine to put it in as a single character.

I'd just use vi where it should just be <Ctrl-V><Esc>.

Trogdor!

it looks like you got it to work on the 666th try. coincidence?

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