`tput` is POSIX, though, so you can reasonably¹ expect it to be present. ¹ Ha, ha. The distro I use, Debian, also omits at least one POSIX standard utility by

`tput` is POSIX, though, so you can reasonably¹ expect it to be present. ¹ Ha, ha. The distro I use, Debian, also omits at least one POSIX standard utility by default, even though all of them used to fit nicely on systems with less disk than your current CPU's cache.