Shell Scripting Tutorial-27: Do Cool Things With 'tput'

In this tutorial you'll learn to use the 'tput' command to change text-display settings, position the cursor at any location on the terminal and to determine the number of rows and columns in your terminal.

[ap]

Can we determine the current cursor position using tput command?

[prakashmalakar]

HI MADHUR,
I am working with RedHatEnterprise. its not printing the noraml mode Bye BYE should print in normal mode but its printing in bold ..??? any solution do u have to solve...??

[meprabs]

Hey Madhur.. Nice job regarding scripting.. Here ur showing/calling Rows as Columns  & Columns as Rows ... Corect me if I'm wrong.. :(

[hemantvarhekar]

Hi Madhur, I am working with RedHatEnterpriseServer
And found out that :
echo "Total number of rows on screen=\c" is not working as expected.When I googled I found out that it must be preceded by -e to enable -c

So FYI for others If they are using RedHatEnterpriseServer the echo command should be
echo -e "Total number of rows on screen=\c"

You can find more explaination on below stack:

[kolajagadish]

Hi, your tutorial are awesome & Thank you for uploading the vedios, can you give the reverse of bold command  using tput command

[pranjalkumar]

At the end you said it wrong its not horizontally for column and vertically for rows its just the opposite.

[shubhamagarwal]

if want for to check for particular file then how can we check with tput command.

[montheist_tv]

Use echo -e to get escape sequences to work if they're not working for you. This happens on Ubuntu 14.04

[achal]

tput bold not working ?dnt knw y?
help me out

[一郎-ei]

Previous versions of Ubuntu were so much better.

[vidyapusandeep]

In tput cup 15 20,
I think 15 is the column number and 20 is the row number.
what do you say? :)