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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Apply to end of line Post 77739 by sysera on Tuesday 12th of July 2005 11:23:56 AM
Old 07-12-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by r2007
except the 1st field, rest of fields will be highlight with <b> tag.
try:
Code:
awk '{for(i=2;i<=NF;i++)$i="<b>"$i"</b>";print}'

Weird, going over this piece by piece, it should work, as I believe $3 should, but I think for some reason awk isn't able to read the input data as I'm seeing it. Sort of strange.

Thank you for the extra help. Smilie
 

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Since version 3.0, GNU Source-highlight includes also the utility source-highlight-settings, which can be used to check whether source-highlight will be able to find its language definition files, and other configuration files, and in case, to store the correct set- tings in a configuration file, in the user home directory. In particular, the stored configuration file will be called source-highlight.conf and will be stored in $HOME/.source-highlight/. For the moment, this file only stores the default value for the --data-dir option. This utility is part of GNU Source-highlight, maintained by: Lorenzo Bettini <http://www.lorenzobettini.it> REPORTING BUGS
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