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I have found these settings in many bash profile files and I don't know what they mean or do. Can anybody explain them? Thanks!

# Terminal colors
NM="\[\033[0;38m\]" #means no background and white lines
HI="\[\033[0;37m\]" #change this for letter colors
HII="\[\033[0;31m\]" #change this for letter colors
SI="\[\033[0;33m\]" #this is for the current directory
IN="\[\033[0m\]"
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  • Practical example: [Display part of fortune in different color](http://askubuntu.com/questions/328029/display-part-of-fortune-in-different-color) – Parto Feb 18 '14 at 21:51

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These are syntaxes for colouring your gnome-terminal.

For example, the first one,

NM="\[\033[0;38m\]" #means no background and white lines

Here,

  • NM is a variable

  • \[\033[ and m\] is the escape sequence for indicating the text in between is a colour code

  • 0;38 indicates no background and white lines(as mentioned in the comments)

Reference:

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