Bash (Scripting) - printing bold text

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The following example from Stack Overflow demonstrates how to make bold text in Bash.

bold=$(tput bold)
normal=$(tput sgr0)
echo "this is ${bold}bold${normal} but this isn't"

 

Running this script will produce the following text.

this is bold but this isn't

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