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Old 09-18-2008
Bold characters in c shell

Hi,

Can someone tell me how to display characters in Bold in C shell??
# 2  
Old 09-18-2008
did you tried tput smso and tput rmso??

Quote:
echo "`tput smso`whatever`tput rmso`"
# 3  
Old 09-18-2008
Yes, I tried that, but tput gives me that word in highlighted format.
I dont want that way.

Or if you can tell me how can I change the font/color, even that would be fine.
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Old 09-18-2008
echo "\033[1;1mwhatever\033[1;m"
not sure that it will work in c shell just try..
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Old 09-18-2008
No, it doesnt!!! This is again ksh syntax..
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