Blink Display

[KAMARULZAMAN HJ ALI]

Hi all, How do I print blinking messages using Korn @ Born Shell ?

[Rainer_1]

blink attribut can be turned on with

echo "`tput blink`text..."

but this is not supported on hpterm, dtterm, xterm

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Use 'tput'. Take a look at the man pages for 'tput' and 'terminfo'. If your terminal supports it, you can blink messages by doing the following:

# echo "`tput blink`Hello world"

...JRF...

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The command 'tput' will provide you with the necessary control strings for your TERM, see man tput and man terminfo.

For example:-

#!/usr/bin/sh
BLINK=$(tput blink)
NORM=$(tput sgr0)
print "normal ${BLINK} blinking ${NORM} normal"

Regards,
John