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# 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 | |||
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Revision as of 17:10, 18 July 2021
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 tputhttps://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
