Re: Changing colouring through a line of text

[uzibalqa]

------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 at 2:52 AM, Bipul kumar 
<bipul.opensource@gmail.com> wrote:


> sorry the wrong image has been sent out mistakenlyPlease find the correct one
> 
> [Client-looking.png]
> 
> Hope it works to your end.
> 
> Respectfully,
> Bipul
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> ** Please excuse brevity and typos. **
> 
> 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" "${rst}" **
> > you should modify your code to retrieve output by utilizing the specified 
> > range mentioned in the 1st argument (i.e., 18 in your case).Then, you need 
> > to print it using the reference of shell variables (e.g., blue and white) 
> > that you defined earlier in your code for foreground.
> > 
> > For example here in this picture
> > https: // ibb.co/0CQbXgc
> > https://ibb.co/0CQbXgc
> > [faceoff.jpeg]
> > To retrieve the desired string for the blue and white outputs, I have used 
> > the cut command in a subshell.
> > This command is applied to the input string provided as the second argument 
> > to the function.
> > 
> > 
> > Respectfully,
> > Bipul
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> > ** Please excuse brevity and typos. **
> > 
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 8:58 PM uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me> wrote:
> > 
> > > I am doing a bash function that takes a multiline string and prints each 
> > > line. The first part of each line uses a blue foreground, whereas the 
> > > rest of each line uses a white foreground.
> > > 
> > > I want to have the user define a column number from which the foreground 
> > > colour on each line changes to white.
> > > 
> > > I need help to do this.
> > > 
> > > The input string would be
> > > 
> > > str='
> > > marinex-dgrul Digit
> > > marinex-ltrul Letter
> > > marinex-nmrul Numeric'
> > > 
> > > Then one would call
> > > 
> > > marinex-ndic 18 "$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
> > > }

Thought it was a joke.