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Asked: 2018-09-26 02:41:02 +0800 CST

How to redirect output with color in gedit [duplicate]

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I have a simple script to print color text in terminal which I've directed to log file too.

#!/bin/bash

echo -e "\033[01;32mGreen color" > ~/Desktop/color.log

When I run from terminal cat color.log, it prints with green color but when I open file with gedit it shows as

[01;32mGreen color

Is it possible to redirect with color in gedit?

command-line gedit bash colors

1 Answers

  1. Most probably not. There might be an option or a plugin in gedit that allows it to interpret this sort of ANSI color escape code, but that's unlikely since the point of those codes is to display color in terminal-based tools, not a GUI tool like gedit.

    I suggest you simply use a terminal based tool to read your files instead. For example, you can use less -R which can interpret color codes correctly:

    less -R  ~/Desktop/color.log
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