Change background of Terminal.app from the commandline

Question

Is it possible to change the background color of Terminal.app from the shell? If so, how?

Answer 1

I don't know the specifics, but I imagine you'd want to write an AppleScript program which you invoke from your shell script. The AppleScript would "Tell" Terminal to change its background colour.

Answer 2

osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\" to set background color of window 1 to {0,45000,0,0}"

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