If you loaded ANSI.SYS in your config.sys, then the procedure is exactly the same. I think this will demonstrate color with ANSI.SYS and/or VT-color: $ cat

If you loaded ANSI.SYS in your config.sys, then the procedure is exactly the same. I think this will demonstrate color with ANSI.SYS and/or VT-color: $ cat rgbdemo.sh #!/bin/sh alias p=printf N=$(p \\033) N="$N[" x=30 for a in Bl R G Y B M C W # Black Red Green Yellow Blue Magenta Cyan White do eval $a='$N'"'"$(( x))"m'" \ b$a='$N'"'"$((60 + x))"m'" \ ${a}bg='$N'"'"$((10 + x))"m'" \ b${a}bg='$N'"'"$((70 + x))"m'" # bX=bright Xbg=background bXbg=brgt bgnd x=$(( x + 1 )) done # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code N=$N'0m' echo "I am $Wbg$R red, $G green, $B and blue $N on a white background."