can I make this echo part of script in BOLD, UNDERLINE and give some color to this ?????
As I wrote in Chapter 14 of my book, Pro Bash Programming:
"Traditionally, screen manipulation is done through the termcap or terminfo database that supplies the information necessary to manipulate any of dozens or even hundreds of types of terminal. The shell interface to the database is an external command, tput.
On some systems, tput uses the termcap database; on others (mostly newer systems) it uses the terminfo database. The commands for the two databases are not the same, so a tput command written for one system may not work on another.
On one system, the command to place the cursor at the 20th column on the 10th row is:
On another system, the command is:
These commands will produce the correct output for whatever type of terminal is specified in the TERM variable. (Note: tput starts counting at 0.)
However, the plethora of terminal types has, for all intents and purposes, been reduced to a single, standard type. This standard, ISO 6429 (also known as ECMA-48, and formerly known as ANSI X3.64 or VT100), is ubiquitous, and terminals that do not support it are few and far between. As a result, it is now feasible to code for a single terminal type. One advantage of this homogeneity is that the necessary coding can be done entirely within the shell. There's no need for an external command."
Hi,
I work with AIX 5 and have two basic questions:
1) How do I underline/bold a word in a text output? Any way to do it with echo command?
basic example: echo "FOLDER " >> folder.txt ( I wish the word FOLDER to be underlined and bold).
2) Suppose I have the following pipe delimited... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am new to shell script. Can you please tell me, whether can we specify font type and color in a shell script? If so, how to do this?
Thanks in advance. (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I was to echo Hi in Red and Bold ; and echo There is in Green and bold
I got bold to working using tput bold but i am having hard time getting the color.
Any help is appreciated,
jak (4 Replies)
hi friend ,
I am generating a csv file i,e output file
E104|0|06/04/1994|The values E005 and E001 are not equal.
E106|0|01/09/1993|The values E001 and E002 are not equal.
E106|0|01/09/1993|The values E003 and E002 are not equal.
E108|0|02/30/1995|The values R001 and E001 are not equal.... (0 Replies)
Hi,
When I am running below mentioned script then the characters become bold but after opening the same file in Windows, Instead of getting bold characters i am getting some garbage value for \033Kunal Dixit
Output in Windows (after ftp the file):
but in windows , i am getting
My name is... (0 Replies)
I have a script main.shl which has few lines like this
#bold
tput smso
echo "\t\tsome statement\t\t"
tput rmso
I am executing the main.shl from the shell and redirected its output to a separate file like this
$main.shl >main.log 2>&1 &
once after running this script, if I "cat" the... (0 Replies)
The code
echo -e "\033[34m Test \033[0m Mail"
when i execute this command line i get proper output
but when i mail the output of this command through sendmail it doesn't appear. Basically I want to send email message in diffrent colours, bold letter using shell script. (2 Replies)
I want to bold one word in shell script. I want the value for num bold when it is inputted. My code does not bold the value. It's like its not even there.
echo -n "Please read a number"
read num ; echo "${bold} $num ${offbold}"
Thank you,
Ccccc (6 Replies)
Hi All,
The below is the email text and i want few words in BOLD.
I am writing the below message in to a .txt file and calling it in a function which generated email. when i run at cmd prompt it is working fine , but wehn i run a script .sh it is not working. Below is the text printing in to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kiranparsha
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
tput
TPUT(1) BSD General Commands Manual TPUT(1)NAME
tput, clear -- terminal capability interface
SYNOPSIS
tput [-T term] attribute ...
clear
DESCRIPTION
The tput utility makes terminal-dependent information available to users or shell applications. When invoked as the clear utility, the
screen will be cleared as if
tput clear
had been executed. The options to tput are as follows:
-T The terminal name as specified in the termcap(5) database, for example, ``vt100'' or ``xterm''. If not specified, tput retrieves the
``TERM'' variable from the environment.
The tput utility outputs a string for each attribute that is of type string; a number for each of type integer. Otherwise, tput exits 0 if
the terminal has the capability and 1 if it does not, without further action.
If an attribute is of type string, and takes arguments (e.g. cursor movement, the termcap ``cm'' sequence) the arguments are taken from the
command line immediately following the attribute.
The following special attributes are available:
clear Clear the screen (the termcap(5) ``cl'' sequence).
init Initialize the terminal (the termcap(5) ``is'' sequence).
longname Print the descriptive name of the user's terminal type.
reset Reset the terminal (the termcap(5) ``rs'' sequence).
EXIT STATUS
The exit status of tput is as follows:
0 If the last attribute attribute argument is of type string or integer, its value was successfully written to standard output. If the
argument is of type boolean, the terminal has this attribute.
1 This terminal does not have the specified boolean attribute.
2 Usage error.
3 No information is available about the specified terminal type.
SEE ALSO termcap(5), terminfo(5)STANDARDS
The tput utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
The tput utility appeared in 4.4BSD.
BUGS
The tput utility cannot really distinguish between different types of attributes.
Some termcap entries depend upon having a '%' in them that is just a '%' and nothing more. Right now we just warn about them if they do not
have a valid type declaration. These warnings are sent to stderr.
BSD June 15, 2002 BSD