Any way for the shell to set the text to bold faced type?

[Boyd Kodama]

HP-UX 10.20

Is there any way, whether in csh, sh or ksh, to
set the text of a terminal window to bold-faced type?

We have a script which echoes/prints out some
text to stdout. We would be interested in
making a particular line of that text stand out
in bold-faced type.

Any ideas?

thanks,

Boyd

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi Boyd,

Try this.

echo `echo ^[[1m` test `echo ^[[m`

This should print test in bold.

^[ is CTRL-V CTRL-[

-Sri

[A. Clay Stephenson]

If your particular terminfo entry supports for your TERM setting, then yes:

tput bold (sets bold)
and
tput rmso (removes 'standout' - back to normal)