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Ever since PowerShell 7 came along, I've been having a lot of fun exploring what I can do with ANSI color escape sequences. And actually, even in Windows PowerShell you can use them. Although you need to use a different escape character. Run Get-PSReadlineOption<\/code> to see what I'm talking about.<\/p>\n

Today I have 2 quick \"toys\" for you to play with. The first is a way to see how to create 256 color schemes. I pulled the data from https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ANSI_escape_code<\/a>. Basically, you can define an escape sequence using the form [38;5;Nm[0m<\/code>. The <\/code> value will be $([char]0x1b)<\/code> for Windows PowerShell. You can use the same in PowerShell 7 or the much easier `e<\/code>.\u00a0 The 38 indicates you want to color the foreground. Use 48 to set the background. And N<\/code> is a value between 1 and 255.<\/p>\n

Here's a short script you can run to see what the color schemes look like.<\/p>\n

Param ([switch]$Background)\n\nif ($host.name -match \"ISE\") {\n    return \"This script won't work properly in the PowerShell ISE. Run it in a PowerShell console.\"\n}\n\nif ($Background) {\n    $X = 48\n}\nelse {\n    $X = 38\n}\n\nif ($iscoreclr) {\n    $esc = \"`e\"\n    $escText = '`e'\n}\nelse {\n    $esc = $([char]0x1b)\n    $escText = '$([char]0x1b)'\n}\n\nClear-Host\n\n1..255| ForEach-Object {\n    $text = \"{0}[$X;5;{1}m'Sample Text'{0}[0m\" -f $escText,$_\n\n    \"{0}`t{1}\" -f $text,(\"$esc[$X;5;$($_)m$('Sample Text')$esc[0m\")\n}\n<\/pre>\n
Here's a sample running in Windows PowerShell.<\/p>\n
\"ansi256-fg\"<\/p>\n
Here's a sample of the backgrounds.<\/p>\n
\"ansi256-bg\"<\/p>\n
You might want to use one of these values to update color options using Set-PSReadlneOption.<\/p>\n
\"ans256-psreadline\"Here you can see that the Parameter color is too difficult to read. I update it with a brighter color and now it is much easier to read. I would need to put this command in my PowerShell profile.<\/p>\n
The other fun I've been having is creating color gradient bars.<\/p>\n
\"ansibar-1\"<\/p>\n
Here's a simple function you can use.<\/p>\n
Function New-ANSIBar {\n    [cmdletbinding()]\n    Param(\n        [Parameter(Mandatory,HelpMessage= \"Enter a range of 256 color values, e.g. (232..255)\")]\n        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]\n        [int[]]$Range,\n        [Parameter(HelpMessage = \"How many spaces do you want in the bar? This will increase the length of the bar.\")]\n        [int]$Spacing = 1\n    )\n    $esc = \"$([char]0x1b)\"\n    $out = @()\n    $blank = \" \"*$spacing\n    $out += $range | ForEach-Object {\n        \"$esc[48;5;$($_)m$($blank)$esc[0m\"\n    }\n\n    $out += $range | Sort-Object -Descending | ForEach-Object {\n        \"$esc[48;5;$($_)m$($blank)$esc[0m\"\n    }\n    $out -join \"\"\n}\n<\/pre>\n
Specify a range or collection of 256 color values and the function will create the gradient bar. If you want a longer bar, increase the spacing.<\/p>\n
\"ansibar-2\"<\/p>\n
You might use this to add a little eye candy to your PowerShell profile, or merely to avoid having to do real work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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