Formatted Text in the Command Line ================================== Let us look at the following text line: "Hellow, world!" I don't know yet if you can see the text in red. If you cannot see it, you can download this text file. Let us look at another example: "Hello, world!" Now, at least in my terminal, the text is also blinking. You can make the your system display formatted texts and change its position on the screen using commands that print plain text using the ANSI Escape Sequences. In the example above, I used "[m". The order does not matter. For example: "[31;5mHello, word!+V and the sequence+text. In a print command: use "\033" to print the Escape characters. \033 means an octal representation of the decimal number 51 (or 0x1B). For example, the "echo" command: echo -e "\033[35;5mHello, world\!\033[0m" prints "Hello, world!" in blinking magenta.