UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I work with AIX 5 and have two basic questions:

1) How do I underline/bold a word in a text output? Any way to do it with echo command?

basic example: echo "FOLDER " >> folder.txt ( I wish the word FOLDER to be underlined and bold).

2) Suppose I have the following pipe delimited input file:
Quality A|2|3
Instructions|4|6
Product Review|6|7

How can I fix the output below in order to have the second and third column always aligned (neat output?)

Folder Name Received Read
QualityA 2 3
Instructions 4(starting in same position as above) 5
Product Review 6(starting in same position as above) 7

Instead of
QualityA 2 3 (using tab or space or plain awk)
Instructions 4 5
Product Review 6 7

Appreciate any comments.
thanks.

If you want the output of wiriting the file to a terminal ( a tty device) to have bold text, etc: you embed ANSI escape sequences in the text to turn off/on bold, turn off/on underline, etc. When you see those sequences in an editor they look like junk characters, it only works on a display terminal.

See:
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