Roy Bekken wrote: > In an bash script I have a line like this: > > _BR="$(tput bold 2> /dev/null)" > > This should return “\33[1m”. I can't get this to work, it always > returns “-1\n” can anyone confirm this? > That is not the result I see, _BR="$(tput bold 2> /dev/null)" echo ${_BR}test Does work, test is in bold.