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Hello Everyone.

I am trying to bold, blink, italicise words using echo command. As per the research I did, it says to use the following escape code to get the effects.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
clear
echo -e "\033[1m Hello World"
 # bold effect
echo -e "\033[5m Blink"
       # blink effect
echo -e "\033[0m Hello World"
 # back to noraml

However when I am compiling I am not getting the desired effect.

Can anyone please let me know what is the escape code to bold, blink, italicise words using echo command?

Thank you.

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Can anyone please help me out..??
Please.......

The codes you are using are correct.

What type of terminal are you using?

You might want to consider using 'tput' instead - 'man tput'.

I remember some interesting discussions I had when suggesting that... but it seems to work more than the other one!

Here's one

Thanks for the reply..

I really dont know what terminal your are talking about..

You mean which flavour of LINUX am I using?

If you mean flavour, then I would say That I am using RedHat Linux.

Please let me know...

Hi.

I meant which terminal software are you using.

If you're trying it from the text console (i.e. not from X) then it won't (doesn't) work.

The tput option does work.

Everywhere else I've tried it (from a graphical environment) the \033 code works.

Well then if thats the case then I am using text console...

Anyways thanks for your help :-)

I'll check it out and let you know tomorrow.

Thank you once again.

Regards.
G Ravi Chandran