simple function for print colorful text

Contributed by hpx

Tagged: Bourne shell scripting

function to print text with colors(not contain all the colors)
can be extened easily

function print_color { local text=$1 local fg=$2 local bg=$3

  #change to right form
 case "$fg" in
 red) fg="31m" ;;
 green) fg="32m" ;;
 yellow) fg="33m" ;;
 blue) fg="34m" ;;
 white) fg="37m" ;;
 black) fg="30m" ;;
 *) fg="37m" ;;
 esac
  case "$bg" in
 red) bg="41m" ;;
 green) bg="42m" ;;
 yellow) bg="43m" ;;
 blue) bg="44m" ;;
 white) bg="47m" ;;
 black) bg="40m" ;;
 *) bg="40m" ;;
 esac