Underline

[Henrik Johansson]

Hello,

I want to have underlined output in a shell. How is it done? I've tried
the man pages for print, printf and sprintf, but...

Regards, Henrik

 

[Anno Siegel]

Hello,

I want to have underlined output in a shell. How is it done? I've tried
the man pages for print, printf and sprintf, but...

In a shell? Wrong newsgroup.

If you want to do it in Perl, look at ANSIColor (yes, it supports
underline too).

Anno

 

[Sherm Pendley]

I want to have underlined output in a shell. How is it done?

It depends on the shell you're using. You might want to look at the Curses,
Term::ANSIScreen, and Win32::Console::ANSI modules on CPAN.

sherm--

 

[Scott W Gifford]

I want to have underlined output in a shell. How is it done? I've
tried the man pages for print, printf and sprintf, but...

Very old scripts do this by printing a letter, then a backspace, then
an underscore character, like this:

perl -le'print "h\b_i\b_";'

Whether this works will depend on your terminal. For a more portable
solution, see the modules that others have recommended.

----ScottG.

 

[Henrik Johansson]

Very old scripts do this by printing a letter, then a backspace, then

an underscore character, like this:

perl -le'print "h\b_i\b_";'

Whether this works will depend on your terminal. For a more portable
solution, see the modules that others have recommended.

Ok. It didn't really work out on my terminal. I did get underlined blank
spaces, but I couldn't figure out how to get anything else underlined.

I'll try the recommended modules. Thanks people.

 

[Henrik Johansson]

Anno Siegel wrote:

In a shell? Wrong newsgroup.

If you want to do it in Perl, look at ANSIColor (yes, it supports
underline too).

In a shell, using Perl.

 

[Anno Siegel]

Anno Siegel wrote:



In a shell, using Perl.

*sigh*

If you use Perl to generate and print text, the properties of your
shell are irrelevant. The properties of your terminal emulation
may matter.

Anno

 

[Scott W Gifford]

Ok. It didn't really work out on my terminal. I did get underlined
blank spaces, but I couldn't figure out how to get anything else
underlined.

Those aren't really underlined blank spaces, just the underscore
character.

I'll try the recommended modules. Thanks people.

Good luck!

-----ScottG.