Tput
From wikinotes
The Termcap DB is a library/db that abstracts control codes to manipulate a terminal.
The tput
command can interact with it from shellscript.
Documentation
man tput
https://man.archlinux.org/man/core/ncurses/tput.1.en
Console Info
tput lines # height of terminal in chars tput cols # width of terminal in chars
Text Formatting
# colour tput setaf 1 # set foreground colour to 1/255 (red) tput setab 1 # set foreground colour to 1/255 (red) # weight tput bold # bold tput smul # underline # reset tput sgr0 # reset formatting