Coloring Terminal Text: tput and ANSI Escape Sequences
A terminal with black-on-white text or vice versa is not very interesting or attractive or informative. Thankfully, modern terminal emulators offer a variety of text styling options as well as foreground and background colors. It’s just a matter of knowing how to apply them with ANSI escape sequences or the tput command. We will explore both methods in this article.
The Difference Between a Terminal, a Console and a Shell
Diving deeper into the computer science world, we often come across the terms “terminal”, “console” and “shell”, which seem to be used more or less interchangeably. Is that really the case? And if not, what is the difference between all of these terms?
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