java: colorful system.out messages on console

Question

I would like my command line java program to output colored texts into the unix console. I am specifically using gnome-terminal on Ubuntu 10.4. I am able to get colors with something like echo "\033[01;32m"Hello on the terminal.

How can I trigger this with java code? Thanks

Answer 1

If you don't care about terminal compatibility, just replace echo with System.out.println( above. For example,

System.out.println("\033[01;32mHello\n");