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Hi Jamf Nation



I have a bash script which has some special echo outputs like color, bold etc.



Unfortunately the logs are pretty weird. For example I see a lot of those errors:



tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified


unable to write 'random state'


Anybody an idea what sort of error this is? The script is working correctly so I think this happens because of the echo commands.

Post script?

A shell script I assume?



Do you have !#/bin/sh or !#/bin/bash at the top ?



Try switching it around and the $TERM error might go away.



It's saying it cant find a valid terminal to emulate



Could also try adding



export TERM=xterm



before any output is generated.

@donmontalvo Unfortunately I can't post the entire script (internal policy) but here are some outputs where the errors occuring:



#!/bin/bash



bold=$(tput bold)

normal=$(tput sgr0) 

red=$(tput setaf 1)

green=$(tput setaf 2)

blue=$(tput setaf 4)



echo "${blue}==> ${normal} ${bold}Purge temporary directory${normal}"

echo "${red}Found MAS receipt${normal}"


@john_bio
Yes it's shell and a #!/bin/bash at the top. Do you think I should use printf instead of echo?

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