Re: Changing colouring through a line of text

[Bipul kumar]

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    Respectfully,
    Bipul
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 8:19 PM Bipul kumar <bipul.opensource@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> If I understand correctly, you want to enter two things: a number
> indicating the number of columns you want, and a string.
> You want to print the beginning of the string up to the specified number
> of columns in blue and the rest of the string in white.
>
> At this point of your code  ** printf '%s%s%s%s%s\n' "${blu}" "$vl" "$wht"
> "$vl" "${rst}" **
> you should modify your code to retrieve output by utilizing the specified
> range mentioned in the 1st argument (i.e., 18 in your case).
> Then, you need to print it using the reference of shell variables (e.g.,
> blue and white) that you defined earlier in your code for foreground.
>
> For example here in this picture
> https: // ibb.co/0CQbXgc
> https://ibb.co/0CQbXgc
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> To retrieve the desired string for the blue and white outputs, I have used
> the cut command in a subshell.
> This command is applied to the input string provided as the second
> argument to the function.
>
>
>     Respectfully,
>     Bipul
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>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 8:58 PM uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me> wrote:
>
>> I am doing a bash function that takes a multiline string and prints each
>> line.  The first part of each line uses a blue foreground, whereas the rest
>> of each line uses a white foreground.
>>
>> I want to have the user define a column number from which the foreground
>> colour on each line changes to white.
>>
>> I need help to do this.
>>
>> The input string would be
>>
>> str='
>>  marinex-dgrul    Digit
>>  marinex-ltrul    Letter
>>  marinex-nmrul    Numeric'
>>
>> Then one would call
>>
>> marinex-ndic 18 "$str"
>>
>> The plan is to have the beginning of each line being blue, whilst from
>> column number 18 the colour changes to white.
>>
>> marinex-ndic ()
>>  {
>>   ## Show coloured  and label
>>
>>   local -r rst="$( tput sgr0 )"  # Default Graphic Rendition
>>   local -r blu="$( tput bold; tput setaf 39 )"  # BLUE
>>   local -r wht="$( tput bold; tput setaf 15 )"  # WHITE
>>
>>   printf '%s\n' "$@"  \
>>     | while IFS="" read -r vl; do
>>         printf '%s%s%s%s%s\n' "${blu}" "$vl" "$wht" "$vl" "${rst}"
>>       done
>>  }
>>
>>