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On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 12:03:29AM +0000, Christos Zoulas
wrote:
>In article <20060924190210.GA27514run.galis.org>,
>George Georgalis <georgegalis.org> wrote:
>>I'm looking for a way to reverse text color. (eg
transpose
>>foreground/background) I'm expecting to find some
esc or ctrl
>>sequence of characters to turn on reverse video and
similarly to
>>turn off.  Normally I would ssh in, from an xterm,
but I'd like a
>>technique to work as expected from console, as
well--if that's an
>>issue I can check TERM setting.
>>
>>The only doc I've seen on doing this is for PS1 on
some shells
>>but I'm looking for something generic enough that I
can invoke
>>with printf commands.
>
>tput so; echo foo; tput se; echo bar

     so        str                 Begin standout mode.
     se        str                 End standout mode.

se/so looks like a better sequencs than what I found...

// George


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