tput

tput:

    Text color:

    tput setaf 0..7 — text color
    tput setab 0..7 — background color

        0: Black
        1: Dark blue
        2: Green
        3: Light blue
        4: Red
        5: Purple
        6: Yellow
        7: White

    tput sgr0 — reset to default

    tput hpa N — shift the cursor by N positions
    tput cols - gets the width of the terminal window
    tput el - clear to the end of line
    tput lines - show window height
    tput cup 6 3 — moves the cursor 6 positions down and 3 to the right

    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ru/library/au-learningtput/


tput example:

    echo `tput setaf 4`fuck it!`tput sgr0`