Hide the cursor from the terminal

Question

I want to be able to hide the cursor programmatically. I am okay with giving any required permissions to the script.

Answer 1

You can use applescript to set the cursor to the current background color of the terminal window:

tell application "Terminal"
    set invisibleColor to get background color of (get properties of (get startup settings))
    set properties of (get startup settings) to {cursor color:invisibleColor}   
end tell

Use osascript to execute applescript within a shell script.