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How to print out bash colors and see how many are available on your chosen terminal.

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A color terminal on Linux can print a wide variety of colors. But how many colors can it print? The colortest utility can show this.

Install it like this.

┌──[jason@192.168.1.2]─[~/Documents]
└──╼  ╼ $ sudo apt-get install colortest

Then run it to get a display table for 16-color terminal escape sequences.

Printing available terminal colors.
Printing available terminal colors.

This can also print out a 256 color table. This is very useful to see the capabilities of your terminal.

Printing out a 256 color table in the terminal.
Printing out a 256 color table in the terminal.

A user may also use this command to view all available colors and font styles.

┌──[jason@192.168.1.2]─[~/Documents]
└──╼  ╼ $ msgcat --color=test

This should help out a user that has installed a custom terminal and wishes to test out the color support and font display capabilities.


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