Read Command : Display the prompt in color (or enable interpretation of backslash escapes)

Question

I often use something like read -e -p \"> All good ? (y/n)\" -n 1 confirm; to ask a confirm to the user.

I\'m looking for a way to colorize the outpu

Answer 1

I have another solution that allows you to use variables to change the text's format. I echo -e the the output I want into the -p argument of the read command.

Here's an example:

RESET="\033[0m"
BOLD="\033[1m"
YELLOW="\033[38;5;11m"
read -p "$(echo -e $BOLD$YELLOW"foo bar "$RESET)" INPUT_VARIABLE