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Old 01-06-2014
Displaying Formatted Text on Virtual Terminal
Hi,

I'm working on a project that requires formatted text to be displayed on the screen plugged into a Linux machine. I want to be able to control this text via a bash script and format it in a particular font and size. Changing the background colour would also be beneficial.

Does anyone know of a program controllable via command line that will allow me to do this?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Liam
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Old 01-06-2014
Check this link.
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Old 01-09-2014
Thanks for the reply radoulov, I'll check that out and have a play around with it all.

Anyone else?

Thanks
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Old 01-09-2014
Using terminfo capabilities as suggested by radoulov is typically the way to do it.

Have a look at the tput command also.
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