Hi Ted, On Fri 23/10/2015 03:47, Ted Unangst wrote: > ul appears somewhat useless for its intended purpose. > > echo _xxx_ | ul does not result in underlined text in an xterm, so I doubt > many people are using this. [...]
I don't use it anymore, but some time ago I needed to quickly highlight some text in a couple of scripts and found out (see [0]) that ul(1) requires a rather obscure sequence of backspaces and underscores to work properly; just try: echo $'x\b_x\b_x\b_' | ul which correctly underlines the "xxx" string in xterm. I'm not against the removal, this is only to say that the command actually works. Cheers [0]: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3044/how-to-use-the-ul-command-line-utility -- Alessandro DE LAURENZIS [mailto:just22....@gmail.com] LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/delaurenzis
