Date: 2012apr24 OS: Linux Keywords: bash Q. How can I underline and bold from a shell script? A. Use the tput command. Like this:

# Bold is SO=Stand Out BOLDON=`tput smso` BOLDOFF=`tput rmso` echo ${BOLDON}hello${BOLDOFF} ULON=`tput smul` ULOFF=`tput rmul` echo ${ULON}hello${ULOFF}

tput outputs the right codes for your current terminal. So don't save its output and use that somewhere else. It only takes a second to run the four tputs anyhow. You can use tput from other languages too. Read its output with popen(). If you want to get really fancy, in C/C++ check out ncurses.

dnf install ncurses-devel

https://www.google.com/search?q=ncurses The Blessings library looks nice for Python.