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Old 08-11-2006
bolding output of a script
does anyone know what i can add to my script to bold certain characters?

i run a script that outputs things to a file and then sends it to outlook. these "things" are separated by asterisks. i want to bold these asterisks so they are more distinctive.


example:
echo "****************************************"
echo "****************************************"


how can i make those asterisks bold when they are sent to outlook?
Terrible
# 2  
Old 08-11-2006
You can try this, provided that your terminal can correctly use the escape sequences.

Code:
#! /usr/bin/ksh
TERM_BLACK='\033[30m'
TERM_RED='\033[31m'
TERM_GREEN='\033[32m'
TERM_YELLOW='\033[33m'
TERM_altBLUE='\033[34m'
TERM_BLUE='\033[3;34m'
TERM_MAGENTA='\033[35m'
TERM_CYAN='\033[36m'
TERM_WHITE='\033[37m'

TERM_RESET='\033[0;0m'
TERM_BOLD='\033[1m'
TERM_REVERSE='\033[2m'

TERM_BLACKBG='\033[40m'
TERM_REDBG='\033[41m'
TERM_GREENBG='\033[42m'
TERM_YELLOWBG='\033[43m'
TERM_BLUEBG='\033[44m'
TERM_MAGENTABG='\033[45m'
TERM_CYANBG='\033[46m'
TERM_WHITEBG='\033[47m'

TERM_TITLE_BEGIN='\033]2;'
TERM_TITLE_END='\007'

print "${TERM_BOLD}Hello${TERM_RESET} there!"

This will work for terminal output. Outlook is a different animal. If you want it to show up bold using HTML tags (<b> and </b>), then you can easily do that but if MS Word is your email editor, good luck, that's alot more difficult.
# 3  
Old 08-11-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by tmarikle
You can try this, provided that your terminal can correctly use the escape sequences.

Code:
#! /usr/bin/ksh
TERM_BLACK='\033[30m'
TERM_RED='\033[31m'
TERM_GREEN='\033[32m'
TERM_YELLOW='\033[33m'
TERM_altBLUE='\033[34m'
TERM_BLUE='\033[3;34m'
TERM_MAGENTA='\033[35m'
TERM_CYAN='\033[36m'
TERM_WHITE='\033[37m'

TERM_RESET='\033[0;0m'
TERM_BOLD='\033[1m'
TERM_REVERSE='\033[2m'

TERM_BLACKBG='\033[40m'
TERM_REDBG='\033[41m'
TERM_GREENBG='\033[42m'
TERM_YELLOWBG='\033[43m'
TERM_BLUEBG='\033[44m'
TERM_MAGENTABG='\033[45m'
TERM_CYANBG='\033[46m'
TERM_WHITEBG='\033[47m'

TERM_TITLE_BEGIN='\033]2;'
TERM_TITLE_END='\007'

print "${TERM_BOLD}Hello${TERM_RESET} there!"

This will work for terminal output. Outlook is a different animal. If you want it to show up bold using HTML tags (<b> and </b>), then you can easily do that but if MS Word is your email editor, good luck, that's alot more difficult.

thanks a million for your input.

see, i dont care about the terminal out put. all i really care about is how it would look in outlook since that is the destination.

if you can, can you please just give me a simple code on how to do this in html. something very simple. just for those two echo asterishks lines. i'll figure out the rest myself.
Terrible
# 4  
Old 08-11-2006
Here is a link on how to do this using sendmail.

In case the link breaks at some future point, the jist of it is as follows:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/posix/sh

(
cat <<!
MIME-Version: 1.1
From:from@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: to@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: This is the subject of the mail. Date: $(date)
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="_boundarystring"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--_boundarystring
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Base: "http://somewebsite.com/";

<html>
<body><font size=4>This</font> is a <i>test</i>.<br>
text line1<br>
<FONT FACE="Courier New">
12345678901234567890<br>
text line2<br>
</FONT>
</body>
</html>

--_boundarystring--
!
) | /usr/lib/sendmail -t -n -v

# 5  
Old 08-11-2006
thanks a million
Terrible
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