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Old 02-23-2004
Printing in Bold
Hi,
How do I print some shell variable in BOLD/
Thanks for any suggestions,
Preeti
# 2  
Old 02-23-2004
See man tput
# 3  
Old 02-23-2004
checked man tput but still unclear!
# 4  
Old 02-23-2004
Here's one way...
Code:
bold=`tput bold`
norm=`tput sgr0`
echo example $bold$LOGNAME$norm

See also man terminfo
# 5  
Old 02-24-2004
Thank You!
TERMINFO is not recognized on IBM AIX I Guess!
# 6  
Old 02-24-2004
Printing in Bold through email via a shell script
$bold$var$norm works as expected on the unix prompt but when called in a shell script which sends output to a mail it prints 1m$var1m.. possibly because it it for terminal only. Is there a way I can have it printed in bold through a shell script which sends output in a mail.
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Old 02-24-2004
It depends on your mail client. I would guess that you are not using a terminal-based client (like /usr/bin/mail) to read the mail message. Some clients (Outlook,InterOffice) allow messages written in html, so try something like....
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh

export MAILTO="recipient@mail.com"
export SUBJECT="test message"
(
 echo "Subject: $SUBJECT"
 echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
 echo "Content-Type: text/html"
 echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
 echo "<HTML><BODY>"
 echo "Test to see if <B>bold</B> works."
 echo "</BODY></HTML>"
) | /usr/sbin/sendmail $MAILTO

 
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