Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, Im using a terminal that can configure colors and backgrounds for determinate text with format, but.... how i can put format to some text?

For example, i use:

echo "Hello my friend"

but i want as output

Hello my friend

the colors will be configured in the terminal but how i put to "my" as bold and "friend" as italic?
thanx

Try my cecho script. Italics are not supported, but bold is....

echo "The next word is in `cecho bold BOLD` and this is `cecho blue IN BLUE..`"

Have a look at my bits on adding colour to /etc/motd too.... (sample output here)

Cheers
ZB

My friend i need more help with /etc/motd, u dend me a link with an ezamble, and a download a file named motd, in my /ect i already have a file with this name but empty, what should i do? i have to replace the one u send me there or what?

Im sorry but i not speak english very well.

The /etc/motd file you can download from my site is an example of adding colour to /etc/motd - /etc/motd is displayed immediately after you login and my example shows how to add colour to this message (if the connecting terminals support it).

Anyway, the purpose of my giving you the link to this wasn't so much for you to replace your existing motd, but so that you could open the file in vi and have a look at the escape sequences used to add colour/boldface to output.

Cheers
ZB