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From: jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Highlighted output from shell script?
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Date: 2 Feb 90 02:03:56 GMT
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jiang@hbar.rice.edu (Jun Jiang) writes:

>I am trying to write a shell script which should be able to print 
>something in highlighted text.  Does anyone out there have any idea
>how to do it?  Thanks a lot.

If you have terminfo this should work:

% bold=`tput bold`
% normal=`tput sgr0`
% echo $bold Some text $normal