BOLD printing a variable in PS1 command 2

[pdtak]

I would like to "BOLD" print the hostname in the following statement:

export PS1=$USER"@"$(hostname -s):'$PWD>'

Is there a special character I can put before and after the variable to make it bold or blinking?

Thanks.

 

[PHV]

man tput

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[Annihilannic]

To elaborate on PHV's posting a little, tput bold will echo the appropriate escape codes for bold text on your current terminal setting, and tput sgr0 will echo the appropriate codes to reset it back to 'normal' text. man terminfo will give you a list of all of the terminal capabilities you can use with tput, although you'll find many are not supported by all terminals.

Annihilannic.