hr [OPTIONS]

-c,    --char       Character to use
-s,    --size       Number of columns
-pre,  --pre        Pad the left side with whitespace n
-post, --post       Pad the right side with whitespace n
-fg,   --fg         Foreground color to use, int 0-255
-bg,   --bg         Background color to use, int 0-255
-b,    --bold       Use bold
-i,    --italic     Use italics
-u,    --underline  Use underline
-r,    --reverse    Use reverse video

-h,    --help       Display this help and exit
-m,    --man        Display the manual and exit
-v,    --version    Display version info and exit

# display a yellow underlined bar using the default '=' character
hr -fg 220 --underline

# display a red solid bar padded by 10 columns from right and left
hr -fg 160 -c ▀ --pre 10 --post 10

# display a solid grey, thick bar using ascii character _ and the bold,
# underline and reverse video attributes

hr -fg 240 -c_ -bur

# display a bar made of dots, with 5 column spacing one each size
# and 20 columns wide.

hr -fg 197 -c· -pre 5 -post 5 -size 20

# use all options at once, because why not?
hr -c ! -fg 52 -bg 196 -biur -s 70 -pre 5 -post 5

# use several characters to form a bar using arithmetics
hr -c "  japh  " -fg 1 -bg 0 -b -s $(($COLUMNS / 8))

Magnus Woldrich
CPAN ID: WOLDRICH
m@japh.se
http://japh.se
http://github.com/trapd00r