Recipe: Grabbing information about terminal

Read No of columns and lines
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COLUMNS=`tput cols`
LINES=`tput lines`

$ tput longname
X11 terminal emulator

Move cursor to a position 100,100
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$ tput cup 100 100

Set background color for terminal
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$ tput setb no
#no → 0 – 7

Set forground color for text
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$ tput setf no
#no → 0-7

Make text bold
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$ tput bold

Start and end underline
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tput smul
tput rmul

Delete from cursor to end of line
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tput ed

Scripts
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password.sh