Question

In batch, can you have different colors per line.
For example if you had a batch file say
“Hello”
“How are you?”

Could you have “Hello” in blue and “How are you” in green?

(I know about the color command, and the way it colors both the background and the text)

Answer 1

You can do it without any external program. Here is something that I came over a couple of days ago. Works very good.

@echo off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=#" %%a in ('"prompt #$H#$E# & echo on & for %%b in (1) do rem"') do (
  set "DEL=%%a"
)
echo say the name of the colors, don't read

call :ColorText 0a "blue"
call :ColorText 0C "green"
call :ColorText 0b "red"
echo(
call :ColorText 19 "yellow"
call :ColorText 2F "black"
call :ColorText 4e "white"

goto :eof

:ColorText
echo off
<nul set /p ".=%DEL%" > "%~2"
findstr /v /a:%1 /R "^$" "%~2" nul
del "%~2" > nul 2>&1
goto :eof

Credits to jeb
His post can be found here