Add color to your linux console program

You can add color to your linux console print outs, such as usage.


#define CSI "\x1B\x5B"
main(){
printf("%s1;31m This is color text %s0m\n",CSI,CSI);
}

shell:
red text:
printf "\x1b\x5b1;31m Ignoring callcatcher \x1b\x5b0m\n";

green text:
printf "\x1b\x5b2;31m Ignoring callcatcher \x1b\x5b0m\n";

Details:
\x1B is Escape Char, \x5B is '['. They form the control string indicator.

1;31 are two commands
1 means bold color
31-37 are the colors

m: set display attributes command

0m: reset to normal display
color code list:

   Black      0;30       Dark Gray    1;30
  Red        0;31       Bold Red     1;31
  Green      0;32       Bold Green   1;32
  Yellow     0;33       Bold Yellow  1;33
  Blue       0;34       Bold Blue    1;34
  Purple     0;35       Bold Purple  1;35
  Cyan       0;36       Bold Cyan    1;36

  Light Gray 0;37       White        1;37


Other commands (from Wikipedia)

Code	Effect	Note
0	Reset / Normal	all attributes off
1	Bright (increased intensity) or Bold
2	Faint (decreased intensity)	not widely supported
3	Italic: on	not widely supported. Sometimes treated as inverse.
4	Underline: Single
5	Blink: Slow	less than 150 per minute
6	Blink: Rapid	MS-DOS ANSI.SYS; 150 per minute or more
7	Image: Negative	inverse or reverse; swap foreground and background
8	Conceal	not widely supported
9	Crossed-out	Characters legible, but marked for deletion.
10	Primary(default) font
11-19	n-th alternate font	Select the n-th alternate font. 14 being the fourth alternate font, up to 19 being the 9th alternate font.
20	Fraktur
21	Underline: Double	not widely supported
22	Normal color or intensity	neither bright, bold nor faint
23	Not italic, not Fraktur
24	Underline: None	not singly or doubly underlined
25	Blink: off
26	Reserved
27	Image: Positive
28	Reveal	conceal off
29	Not crossed out
30–37	Set text color	3x, where x is from the color table below
38	Reserved
39	Default text color	implementation defined (according to standard)
40–47	Set background color	4x, where x is from the color table below
48	Reserved
49	Default background color	implementation defined (according to standard)
50	Reserved
51	Framed
52	Encircled
53	Overlined
54	Not framed or encircled
55	Not overlined
56-59	Reserved
60	ideogram underline or right side line
61	ideogram double underline or double line on the right side
62	ideogram overline or left side line
63	ideogram double overline or double line on the left side
64	ideogram stress marking
90–99	Set foreground color, high intensity	aixterm (not in standard)
100–109	Set background color, high intensity	aixterm (not in standard)