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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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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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Get terminal status for termcap capabilities
How can one retrieve status of terminal settings like smam and rmam ?
Reason is that I set rmam by:
tput rmam
in script, then proceed to set smam on exit:
tput smam
But if terminal has rmam set when ...
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tput ed is empty
The output of tput ed is empty and I can't figure out why. Other capabilities work fine. Also ed is not missing from infocmp output so tput should match, right?
$ printf '%q' "$(tput ed)"
''
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How to set the background color of the Linux console screen?
Note: I reworked the question to clarify the issues. This is a trivial question that can be answered in several parts because the question has several attributes.
Unfortunately, the question may be ...
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