Christoph: New page: This article will explore the '''tput''' command in Linux. It is a standard Unix operating system command, which is used to set terminal features. Depending on the system, `tput<...`


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New page: This article will explore the '''tput''' command in Linux. It is a standard Unix operating system command, which is used to set terminal features.  Depending on the system, <code>tput<...
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This article will explore the '''tput''' command in [[Linux]]. It is a standard Unix operating system command, which is used to set terminal features.



Depending on the system, <code>tput</code> uses the [[wikipedia:terminfo|terminfo]] or [[wikipedia:termcap|termcap]] database, as well as looking into the environment for the terminal type.



==Usage==

<div style="float:left; margin:0px 20px 20px 0px;">

{| align="center" style="border: 1px solid #999; background-color:#FFFFFF"

|-align="center" bgcolor="#1188ee"

!Action

!Parameters

|-

| Set background color || tput setab [1-7] 

|--bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| Set foreground color || tput setaf [1-7]

|-

| Set bold mode || tput bold

|--bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| Set half-bright mode || tput dim

|-

| Set underline mode || tput smul

|--bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| Exit underline mode || tput rmul

|- 

| Reverse mode || tput rev

|--bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| Set standout mode || tput smso

|-

| Exit standout mode || tput rmso

|--bgcolor="#eeeeee"

| Reset all attributes || tput sgr0

|}

</div>

{{Clear}}

;Colors : 0=black; 1=red; 2=green; 3=yellow; 4=blue; 5=purple; 6=cyan; 7=white



For an example, to make the terminal font colour green, execute

 tput setaf 1



==References==

*Tansley DSW (2000). "Creating screen output". ''Linux and UNIX shell programming''. Safari Tech Books Online. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-67472-9.



==External links==

*[http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/tput.1.html tput man page] (includes example usage)

*[[wikipedia:tput]]

*[http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x405.html ''Colours and Cursor Movement With tput'' in Bash Prompt HOWTO]

*[http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-learningtput/?S_TACT=105AGY06& ''Discover tput'' on IBM DeveloperWorks]



[[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]

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Christoph: New page: This article will explore the '''tput''' command in Linux. It is a standard Unix operating system command, which is used to set terminal features. Depending on the system, tput<...

Christoph: New page: This article will explore the '''tput''' command in Linux. It is a standard Unix operating system command, which is used to set terminal features. Depending on the system, `tput<...`