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

this work for me :

    BC=$'\e[4m'
    EC=$'\e[0m'

    while true; do
            read -p "Do you wish to copy table from ${BC}$HOST $PORT${EC} to ${BC}$LOCAL_HOST $LOCAL_PORT${EC}? (y or n)" yn
        case $yn in
        ....
    done

Results are as follows:

more example ,see the show case ,link is :

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