title: Colour output of program run under BASH
body: <p>I need to be able to be able to make some text on terminal more noticeable, and what I thought was to make the text colored. Either the actual text, or the space in each letter's rectangle-thingy (think vi's cursor). The only two extra specs that I think are important for my application are : the program should be distro-independent (a certainty is that the code will only be run under BASH), and it shouldn't output extra characters when writing to a file (either from the actual code, or when piping the output)</p>
  
  <p>I searched the web for some info, but I could only find info for the deprecated cstdlib (stdlib.h), and I need (actually, it's more of a "want") to do it using the functionality of iostream.</p>