Personalize your windows command prompt

Some times you may want to customize your windows command prompt to display font color differently. I mean instead of white color font with black back groud color, you may want to display them in red color font or something else. Typically people go to window properties and choose the color. Instead you can achieve through DOS command. This is not just for a fun always, it might be useful to have unique color for the batch file/app you write to do some tasks.

Here is the help information:


C:\workspace\perl>color /h
Sets the default console foreground and background colors.

COLOR [attr]

attr Specifies color attribute of console output

Color attributes are specified by TWO hex digits -- the first
corresponds to the background; the second the foreground. Each digit
can be any of the following values:

0 = Black 8 = Gray
1 = Blue 9 = Light Blue
2 = Green A = Light Green
3 = Aqua B = Light Aqua
4 = Red C = Light Red
5 = Purple D = Light Purple
6 = Yellow E = Light Yellow
7 = White F = Bright White

If no argument is given, this command restores the color to what it was
when CMD.EXE started. This value either comes from the current console
window, the /T command line switch or from the DefaultColor registry
value.

The COLOR command sets ERRORLEVEL to 1 if an attempt is made to execute
the COLOR command with a foreground and background color that are the
same.

Example: "COLOR fc" produces light red on bright white


For example:


C:\workspace\perl>color 7