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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to underline/bold and how to align output Post 75158 by clara on Wednesday 15th of June 2005 04:13:16 PM
Old 06-15-2005
How to underline/bold and how to align output
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 input file:
Quality A|2|3
Instructions|4|6
Product Review|6|7

How can I fix the output below in order to have the second and third column always aligned (neat output?)

Folder Name Received Read
QualityA 2 3
Instructions 4(starting in same position as above) 5
Product Review 6(starting in same position as above) 7

Instead of
QualityA 2 3 (using tab or space or plain awk)
Instructions 4 5
Product Review 6 7

Appreciate any comments.
thanks.
 

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NAME

       shtool-echo - GNU shtool echo(1) extensional command

SYNOPSIS

       shtool echo [-n|--newline] [-e|--expand] string

DESCRIPTION

       shtool echo is an echo(1) style command which prints string to stdout and optionally provides special expansion constructs (terminal bold
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       gory details needed to find out the environment details under option -e.

OPTIONS

       The following command line options are available.

       -n, --newline
	   By default, output is written to stdout followed by a "newline" (ASCII character 0x0a). If option -n is used, this newline character is
	   omitted.

       -e, --expand
	   If option -e is used, string can contain special "%x" constructs which are expanded before the output is written. Currently the
	   following constructs are recognized:

	   %B  switch terminal mode to bold display mode.

	   %b  switch terminal mode back to normal display mode.

	   %u  the current user name.

	   %U  the current user id (numerical).

	   %g  the current group name.

	   %G  the current group id (numerical).

	   %h  the current hostname (without any domain extension).

	   %d  the current domain name.

	   %D  the current day of the month.

	   %M  the current month (numerical).

	   %m  the current month name.

	   %Y  the current year.

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	#   shell script
	shtool echo -n -e "Enter your name [%B%u%b]: "; read name
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HISTORY

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SEE ALSO

       shtool(1), echo(1).

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