Questions tagged [tput]
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Command substitution used with tput which doesn't print anything
I am doing a code-study of /lib/lsb/init-functions on mint 20 just to familiarise myself with SystemV init system. There is log_action_end_msg function in it which has this code snippet, TPUT=/usr/bin/...
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How can I get tput to fill the whole background without leaving a border?
I'm using bash in cygwin on a Windows laptop. I'd like to be able to change the background color of my terminal to green (actual color irrelevant) and to do that I can use either of these commands: ...
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How to "render" ouput from a command playing with tput so only the final terminal-postprocessed result is kept? [duplicate]
I captured the output of a script that uses tput to draw certain things on screen. When I perform cat myoutput then everything is well seen (looks like terminal reinterprets it from beginning), but ...
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The Command tput sgr0 Changes my Terminal Font and Text Colour, how to Stop This? Any echo After tput sgr0 Outputs as Bold White
When I do tput sgr0 it changes my terminal font and colour to white (should be black) and looks blocky. Please see screenshot: How do I stop this? To be more concise, any echo after tput sgr 0 seems ...
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bash script to get current line and row not working
ive written the following script to print out the current line and row every time it changes aka every time i press up,down,left or right but the output is always the same: row:43:col:141 i believe ...
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Adding a newline above PS1 that survives prepending
In OBSD ksh, I had a PS1 which prepended a blank line: PS1="\n[\u@\h] \w\n\$" The problem with this was that pyenv prepends the name of a virtual environment when that environment is ...
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Not enough arguments for capability `setaf` in OpenBSD
I want to change the text colour in a shell. I can use tput to get the correct escape codes. For example, echo "$(tput setaf 5)My text$(tput sgr0)" outputs My text in a pink-ish tone. This ...
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How does `tput` detect color support
I am trying to make my shell script supporting as much terminals as possible, that is, adding ANSI colors, bold and dim only when supported. However, I want to detect the number of colors supported. ...
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Use altscreen like vim with screen with Ubuntu XTerm
When I exit a screen, I want to be able to return to the terminal looking as I left it. But right now, all I can do is have it clear the screen and put the terminal at the top or the bottom through ...
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How to check if a terminal can display undercurl from within a bash/zsh script?
How to check if a terminal can display undercurl from within a bash/zsh script? In a recent project I used undercurl escape sequence for output printed by a zsh script. It works well in modern ...
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terminfo/termcap `tput bold`/`tput md`: portability of bold text
Suppose I have the following color support in one of my portable shell scripts: #!/bin/sh set -o nounset tput_init_linux () { set_fg_color='tput setaf'; reset_color=$(tput sgr0 2>/dev/null); } ...
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tput from initrd
I have a script that uses tput and runs in a initrd. Specifically I'm using tput -T linux [sc|rc|ed] > /dev/tty0 to overwrite multiple lines. When I run in a qemu vm, it works perfectly. When I run ...
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Setting LESS_TERMCAP_* variables with $(tput ...) in ~/.profile not working
This is my ~/.bashrc: # ...unnecessary lines skipped... # man colors LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$(tput blink) # start bold LESS_TERMCAP_md=$(tput setaf 2 ; tput bold) # start bold LESS_TERMCAP_me=$(tput sgr0) # ...
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How to keep/restore stderr after `tput smcup`
Given the following contrived example which intent is to only erase the subcommand's /dev/tty: result="$( tput smcup > /dev/tty tput cup 0 0 > /dev/tty echo 'meh' > /dev/tty echo ...
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How to have a bash subcommand clear its modifications to TTY?
Given the following contrived example (proper example would be guiding the user through a series of questions and echoing to stdout the computed results from the user's answers), how can I have it so ...
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