I want to execute a command in a bash script that will resize the terminal window. In xterm

xterm -geometry=30x30

will create a new xterm window, and

lxterminal --geometry=30x30

will create a new lxterminal window.

Is there a way to resize either terminal without opening a new window? This is what it would look like:

if [ $TERMINALTYPE=xterm ]; then

    DASH="-"

else

    DASH="--"

endif



echo -e $TERMINALTYPE" "$DASH"geometry 30x30"

BUT: If there is a command that is a nice one-liner that will work with either terminal (vt100 escape sequence maybe) then that is even better.