required output of echo in bold letters
while using echo command I want the content to be bold and it should have same bold view while appending echo output to the file
echo "hi">test.txt
i want hi should be in bold in the test.txt file
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A text file is just plain text, no font-formatting such as bold or italics. You'll need to use a different file format– ElefantPhaceAug 2, 2014 at 3:39
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@ElefantPhace:CAn you let me know while echo command when i append it to a file i need to see characters in bold which format would support it.– user3867974Aug 3, 2014 at 10:01
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You can't do it. Not in a plain text file.– ElefantPhaceAug 3, 2014 at 13:01
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.txt is a raw text format: you can't use any type of text-formatting.
Some "generic" conventions are **Bold** and *italic* because a lot of markdown will interpret these as bold and italic.
Another thing that could be usefull to display a bold text is to use bash. But it will of course only work in you display the .txt in a bash-terminal. For this, you can use something like echo -e "\033[1mThis text is bold", but it will be copied 'as it' in the .txt file.
answered Aug 2, 2014 at 3:49
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An easier option in bash would be to use
echo $(tput bold)This is boldAug 2, 2014 at 3:52 -
Yes the above code in terminal makes it bold but when same is appendind to a text file it shows as its is.so i want to see same bold ouput inside a file.. Aug 3, 2014 at 9:44
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Hi @ElefantPhace:its same while running the tput has same issue I am able to see characters [1m hi inside a.txt file code ran is as below. echo $(tput bold) hi>a.text Aug 3, 2014 at 9:53
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".txt is a raw text format: you can't use any type of text-formatting." The first line of my answer. Aug 3, 2014 at 10:59