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Smile how to BLINK on terminal???
hello sir,
I want to blink a given text on the screen.
I tried using the following :-

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echo -en "\033[5m hello how are u"
I also used :-

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tput blink
But still I am unable to see the text in the blinking effect.Can you please tell me where did I go wrong?
Can you please tell me any other ways of blinking !!!!!
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Fortunately, most modern terminals and terminal emulations do not support blink.
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Oh..I dint know that sir.
So is there any command to BLINK any given string on the screen?
can you please give me an example !!!
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You've got the right syntax with tput, but like mentioned before, your terminal has to support it.

I tried it on a few with mixed results. This command:

echo "`tput blink`hightlighted`tput sgr0`"

putty window: inverted colors (kinda)
dtterm: inverted colors
xterm: text bolded
gnome terminal: nothing
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