$ tclsh << 'EOF'
> set fileName "colours.txt"
> set fileHandle [open $fileName r]
> set fileContent [read $fileHandle]
> close $fileHandle
> set colorMap [dict create {*}$fileContent]
> set outputList [list]
> dict for {text hex} $colorMap {
> set cleanHex [string trimleft $hex "#"]
> scan $cleanHex "%2x%2x%2x" r g b
> lappend outputList "\033\[38;2;$r;$g;${b}m$text\033\[0m"
> }
> puts "# Gemini 3.5 generated this code."
> puts [join $outputList ", "]
> exit
> EOF
# Gemini 3.5 generated this code.
Awk, Csharp, Elisp, Haskell, Java,
Julia, Python, Scheme, TeX, TypeScript
$
$ perl -le '($h=$ARGV[0])=~s/^#//;
@c=map{hex}unpack"A2"x3,$h;
print"\e[38;2;".join(";",@c)."m$^V\e[0m";' '#0298c3'
v5.34.3
$
$ Rscript -e 'cat("\033[38;2;25;140;231m", version$nickname, "\033[0m\n")'
Because it was There
$
$ tclsh << 'EOF'
> puts "\033\[30;48;2;228;204;152m[info patchlevel]\033\[0m"
> EOF
8.6.12
$
$ cat ansi.m4
divert(-1)
define(`grey', `syscmd(printf "\033[30;48;2;204;204;204m%s\033[0m\n" __m4_version__)')
divert(0)dnl
grey()dnl
$ m4 ansi.m4
1.9a.685-d69f-modified
$
$ xprop -id "$WINDOWID" 2>/dev/null | \
> grep kde | awk -F '[\".]' '{print $4}'
konsole
$ url=$(echo https://nurmi-labs.blogspot.com/search/label/claire | \
> sed 's#search/label#feeds/posts/default/-#')"?alt=json&max-results=0"
$ curl -s $url | awk -F '"openSearch\\$totalResults":{"\\$t":"' '{split($2,a,"\""); print a[1]}'
3
$