Snippet to continuously grab and display the size of the console window

trapWindowSize.sh

#!/bin/bash
trap 'get_window_size' WINCH    # trap when a user has resized the window
get_window_size() {
  _WINDOW_X=`tput lines`
  _WINDOW_Y=`tput cols`

  echo "X: $_WINDOW_X"
  echo "Y: $_WINDOW_Y"

  return 0
}

while read ALINE
do
  echo "Read: '$ALINE'"
done