Linux and UNIX Man Pages

Linux & Unix Commands - Search Man Pages

ul(1) [linux man page]

UL(1)							    BSD General Commands Manual 						     UL(1)

NAME
ul -- do underlining SYNOPSIS
ul [-i] [-t terminal] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
The ul utility reads the named files (or standard input if none are given) and translates occurrences of underscores to the sequence which indicates underlining for the terminal in use, as specified by the environment variable TERM. The file /etc/termcap is read to determine the appropriate sequences for underlining. If the terminal is incapable of underlining, but is capable of a standout mode then that is used instead. If the terminal can overstrike, or handles underlining automatically, ul degenerates to cat(1). If the terminal cannot underline, underlining is ignored. During the translation some other special characters also get translated. E.g. TAB gets expanded to spaces. The following options are available: -i Underlining is indicated by a separate line containing appropriate dashes '-'; this is useful when you want to look at the underlin- ing which is present in an nroff(1) output stream on a CRT-terminal. -t terminal Overrides the terminal type specified in the environment with terminal. ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and TERM environment variables affect the execution of ul as described in environ(7). EXIT STATUS
The ul utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO
colcrt(1), man(1), nroff(1) HISTORY
The ul command appeared in 3.0BSD. BUGS
The nroff(1) command usually outputs a series of backspaces and underlines intermixed with the text to indicate underlining. No attempt is made to optimize the backward motion. BSD
August 4, 2004 BSD

Check Out this Related Man Page

ul(1)								   User Commands							     ul(1)

NAME
ul - do underlining SYNOPSIS
ul [-i] [-t terminal] [filename]... DESCRIPTION
ul reads the named filenames (or the standard input if none are given) and translates occurrences of underscores to the sequence which indicates underlining for the terminal in use, as specified by the environment variable TERM. ul uses the /usr/share/lib/terminfo entry to determine the appropriate sequences for underlining. If the terminal is incapable of underlining, but is capable of a standout mode then that is used instead. If the terminal can overstrike, or handles underlining automatically, ul degenerates to cat(1). If the terminal can- not underline, underlining is ignored. OPTIONS
-t terminal Override the terminal kind specified in the environment. If the terminal cannot underline, underlining is ignored. If the terminal name is not found, no underlining is attempted. -i Indicate underlining by a separate line containing appropriate dashes `-'; this is useful when you want to look at the underlining which is present in an nroff(1) output stream on a CRT-terminal. RETURN VALUES
ul returns exit code 1 if the file specified is not found. FILES
/usr/share/lib/terminfo/* ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWdoc | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
cat(1), man(1), nroff(1), attributes(5) BUGS
nroff usually generates a series of backspaces and underlines intermixed with the text to indicate underlining. ul makes attempt to opti- mize the backward motion. SunOS 5.11 17 Mar 1994 ul(1)
Man Page

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

underlining

can unix underline any words ?? like <u>Time-»_( 07:54:50 )_ Date-»( Fri Aug 29 )</u> (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: SeeD
8 Replies

2. Programming

read terminal command

hi how to read terminal command, just i want to read all command which write on terminal so please tell me any system call, api avilable in c for above purpose (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: munnu
6 Replies

3. Solaris

how to redirect my output in a new terminal

Hi all, i type a command along with dtterm what i would like to have is that the output of the command to be shown in the new terminal . Any Idea on how to acheive this? (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sayantan
0 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Scripting to convert underscores to spaces

Greetings, I have a bunch of music files that I want to strip the underscores out, and leave only spaces. All that I've found on the web is how to add underscores to files that have spaces, and reversing the "tr" command does not make a difference. Here is how to convert spaces to... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: brakeb
6 Replies

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Live/real-time text-file updates in terminal

I want to have a terminal open and have something like a "repeating cat" command running in it for a certain text file (in particular /var/log/system.log). So my terminal will scan or cat the text file every so often or whenever the text file system.log gets written to by the system, it will... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: guitarscn
1 Replies

6. Red Hat

terminal size

Is there an easy command to know the size of a terminal window from a command line command? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: garethsays
3 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Prevent terminal from closing after command execution

Hello, I want to create application which launches some terminal, then some command is executed on that terminal and then prevent terminal from closing. I started to do on gnome-terminal because the Gnome is the most widely used desktop-manager in the Linux distributions. I want to do... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: tyanata
3 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help with underline text based on specific region

Input file 2 5 ASFGEWTEWRQWEQ 10 20 QEWIORUEIOUEWORUQWEQWRQRQWGQWGFQ 1 6 WRQTQWTQTQWTQT Desired output file 2 5 ASFGEWTEWRQWEQ 10 20 QEWIORUEIOUEWORUQWEQWRQRQWGQWGFQ 1 6 WRQTQWTQTQWTQT Column 1 is the start region of underline the text in column 3; Column 2 is the end region of... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: cpp_beginner
13 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can I view doc files from terminal

Sometimes I'm working from terminal for long periods of time and I come across a doc file I don't recognize. I've been trying to figure out how to view it instead of opening up word. I've tried cat but it jumps into binary and my terminal goes nuts. Is there a way I can do this from... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: syregnar86
4 Replies