2016-08-23 This is not really my world (unportable), but I like it though: text="Hello World" echo -e "+${text//?/-}+\n|${text}|\n+${text//?/-}+" [0] [0] https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=161993&p=1102389&view=show#p1102389 http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke