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Old 12-04-2006
"highlighting the text in ur output"
Hi,
Can anyone tell me..how to highlight a particular part of ur output text in shell programming..say,if all the o/p is against black bground,i need some text to be against white bground..
eg..You can see some text highlighted in man pages .Right??
But how ll you do that.

Thanx
Last edited by sakthi.abdullah; 12-04-2006 at 09:50 AM..
# 2  
Old 12-04-2006
Hi,

Not sure if this is any help to you but I found a thrid party application on google that appears to do what you want.

Read on...

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/464

Hope this helps.

Paulo.
# 3  
Old 12-04-2006
refer to this thread

https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/33328-how-change-font-colour-unix.html
# 4  
Old 12-05-2006
Got it
I got it accidentally from a script in internet.

What they use is...
tput smso //for enabling the highlighting
tput rmso //return to normal mode
# 5  
Old 12-07-2006
try it

Code:
bold=`tput bold`
normal=`tput rmso`

########## Initial section
clear
echo
echo ${bold}highlight a particular part of ur output text
echo ${bold}This script is meant to be executed on a fresh
${normal}

# 6  
Old 12-07-2006
tput rmso ll not remove bold
tput bold ll do..
but `tput rmso` ll not remove that
However `tput reset` ll clear altogether
# 7  
Old 12-11-2006
echo -e "\033[36mHello\033[0m"
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