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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

Henrik Johansson <> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> 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

Henrik Johansson wrote:

> 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.

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Henrik Johansson <> writes:

> 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.

> 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.

Anno Siegel wrote:

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> 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.

Henrik Johansson <> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> Anno Siegel wrote:
>
> <cut>
>
> > 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.

*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

Henrik Johansson <> writes:

> > 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.

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

> I'll try the recommended modules. Thanks people.

Good luck!

-----ScottG.