Shell Programming and Scripting

Thanks, good to know that in practice it is much more usable than the POSIX standard suggests...

Misunderstanding, yes its a binary package, as most packages are.
And that one calls binaries from a script is obvious.
Calling a binary from another binary isnt that 'nice'.

But me (was) talking about how to use ncurses, as it seems (to me) one must do binaries too, which isnt scripting - which is where the TO wanted to use bold text (though that would be tput =! ncurse).
Hope you understand me?
Maybe i have gotten just all the wrong youtube videos... but in all of those i watched, NONE of the shown code was bash/csh/ksh!

I love terminals (and scripting), thats why i wrote TUI, as another style of ncurses, and actualy be usable within scripts, without needing to compile it first.

Back on topic... ncurses is a package which happens to contain a version of tput (for places that don't have tput). Thus you just need to call tput with a capability string (from the command line or script) and capture it's output (well for most things tput does).

Yes.. ncurses (library) provides a way of building sophisticated TUIs on terminals (things like windows, etc..) and for that, you need to write a program. But the package does contain some other items (like tput).