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how do i change from employee= to employee= in ksh.

in my shell script, i just want to employee= to BOLD.

2

try

printf "%s\n" "$(tput bold)employee$(tput rmso)="
3

For the shell bold is just an echo of escape sequence, I dont understand what you are trying to do...
For your information, try:

echo  "\033[1memployee\033[0m"
4

thanks.