how to BLINK on terminal???

hello sir,
I want to blink a given text on the screen.
I tried using the following :-

I also used :-

But still I am unable to see the text in the blinking effect.Can you please tell me where did I go wrong?
Can you please tell me any other ways of blinking !!!!!

Fortunately, most modern terminals and terminal emulations do not support blink.

Oh..I dint know that sir.
So is there any command to BLINK any given string on the screen?
can you please give me an example !!!

You've got the right syntax with tput, but like mentioned before, your terminal has to support it.

I tried it on a few with mixed results. This command:

echo "`tput blink`hightlighted`tput sgr0`"

putty window: inverted colors (kinda)
dtterm: inverted colors
xterm: text bolded
gnome terminal: nothing