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cameo

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Registered: 2012-08-18

Posts: 119

bash: tput blinking w/ bold text on colored bg?

Hi folks,

in urxvt-256 as well as in xterm, I got bold text on a colored background, or blinking (bold) text. But when there's also a colored background, tput just gives a brighter bg, and no blinking at all~ How so?! I'm using this sample code (with the end as a reset):

$ tput setab 6; tput bold; tput blink; echo -n "foo bar baz"; tput sgr0; echo ""