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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Want to box the output Post 302859335 by drl on Wednesday 2nd of October 2013 10:13:13 PM
Old 10-02-2013
Hi.

A command available on Debian-related systems: boxes
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s1	Demonstrate enclose text within text box, "boxes".

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space, debug.
# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
pe() { for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
db() { ( printf " db, ";for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done;printf "\n" ) >&2 ; }
db() { : ; }
C=$HOME/bin/context && [ -f $C ] && $C boxes

FILE=${1-data1}

pl " Input data file $FILE:"
cat $FILE

pl " Results:"
boxes $FILE

exit 0

producing:
Code:
% ./s1

Environment: LC_ALL = C, LANG = C
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.26-2-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.8 (lenny, workstation) 
bash GNU bash 3.2.39
boxes version 1.0.1a

-----
 Input data file data1:
I have on script1 which provide the output text...
I want to make box around that output to make it more beautiful.
As the output lines for the script1 are not fixed, I can not hard
code the design pattern.
Can anyone provide me the code to make design.

-----
 Results:
 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | I have on script1 which provide the output text...                |
 | I want to make box around that output to make it more beautiful.  |
 | As the output lines for the script1 are not fixed, I can not hard |
 | code the design pattern.                                          |
 | Can anyone provide me the code to make design.                    |
 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+

Additional information at Linux / Unix Desktop Fun: Text Mode ASCII-art Box and Comment Drawing

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
 

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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME
shells - shell database SYNOPSIS
/etc/shells DESCRIPTION
The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser- shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root. A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored. The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/ksh93, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/ksh93, /usr/bin/pfcsh, /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh, and /usr/sfw/bin/zsh. /etc/shells overrides the default list. Invalid shells in /etc/shells could cause unexpected behavior, such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1). FILES
/etc/shells list of shells on system SEE ALSO
vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4) SunOS 5.11 20 Nov 2007 shells(4)
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