{"id":6208,"date":"2022-09-02T03:16:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-randomly-generate-ansi-colors-in-bash-perl\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T03:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:46:08","slug":"solved-how-to-randomly-generate-ansi-colors-in-bash-perl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-randomly-generate-ansi-colors-in-bash-perl\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] How to randomly generate ANSI colors in Bash\/Perl?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-38392147\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"38392147\" data-parentid=\"38386077\" data-score=\"5\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>In bash, you need to use color escape sequences with <code>echo -e<\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>random_colors.sh<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><code>#!\/bin\/bash\n\nTXT='the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.'\nWORDS=( $TXT )\nfor WORD in \"${WORDS[@]}\"; do\n    let \"i=$RANDOM % 256\"\n    echo -en \"\\e[38;5;${i}m$WORD \\e[0m\";\ndone;\necho\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Running this 10 times:<\/p>\n<pre><code>for i in `seq 1 10`; do bash random_colors.sh; done\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><strong>Output<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Solved-How-to-randomly-generate-ANSI-colors-in-BashPerl.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Solved-How-to-randomly-generate-ANSI-colors-in-BashPerl.png\" alt=\"Bash Color Output\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To get a particular palette, you will need to restrict the set of color numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ANSI_escape_code#Colors\">ANSI Escape Codes for Colors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/misc.flogisoft.com\/bash\/tip_colors_and_formatting\">Colors and Formatting<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved How to randomly generate ANSI colors in Bash\/Perl? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In bash, you need to use color escape sequences with echo -e random_colors.sh #!\/bin\/bash TXT=&#8217;the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.&#8217; WORDS=( $TXT ) for WORD in &#8220;${WORDS[@]}&#8221;; do let &#8220;i=$RANDOM % 256&#8221; echo -en &#8220;\\e[38;5;${i}m$WORD \\e[0m&#8221;; done; echo Running this 10 times: for i in `seq 1 10`; do bash random_colors.sh; &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] How to randomly generate ANSI colors in Bash\/Perl?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-randomly-generate-ansi-colors-in-bash-perl\/\" aria-label=\"More on [Solved] How to randomly generate ANSI colors in Bash\/Perl?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[1042,442],"class_list":["post-6208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solved","tag-bash","tag-perl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Solved] How to randomly generate ANSI colors in Bash\/Perl? - JassWeb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-randomly-generate-ansi-colors-in-bash-perl\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Solved] How to randomly generate ANSI colors in Bash\/Perl? - JassWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[ad_1] In bash, you need to use color escape sequences with echo -e random_colors.sh #!\/bin\/bash TXT=&#039;the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.&#039; WORDS=( $TXT ) for WORD in &quot;${WORDS[@]}&quot;; do let &quot;i=$RANDOM % 256&quot; echo -en &quot;e[38;5;${i}m$WORD e[0m&quot;; done; echo Running this 10 times: for i in `seq 1 10`; do bash random_colors.sh; ... 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