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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk problem underlining text Post 303000949 by wisecracker on Monday 24th of July 2017 09:19:13 AM
Old 07-24-2017
Assuming your terminal can do it, you could use a terminal escape code something like this:-
(OSX 10.12.5, default bash terminal.)
Code:
Last login: Mon Jul 24 13:59:56 on ttys000
AMIGA:barrywalker~> TEXT="This business of the Gods"
AMIGA:barrywalker~> printf "\033[4m%s\033[0m\n" "$TEXT" 
This business of the Gods          #This sentence is underlined from the terminal escape code and reset at the end of the sentence.
AMIGA:barrywalker~> _

As for your field separators ' ,' your second field, (the sentence), must not have spaces or commas in it. Better to have the comma only and do a workaround if necessary.
 

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