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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | FILES | PORTABILITY | HISTORY | EXAMPLES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON |
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toe(1M) User commands toe(1M)
toe - list table of entries of terminfo terminal types
toe [-ahs] [-v [n]] [directory ...]
toe [-u|-U] file
toe -V
toe reports to the standard output stream the (primary) names and
descriptions of the terminal types available to the terminfo
library. Each directory is scanned; if none are given, toe scans
the default terminfo directory.
The -h option can be helpful to observe where toe is looking for
terminal descriptions. Other options support maintainers of
terminfo terminal descriptions.
-a lists entries from all terminal database directories that
terminfo would search, instead of only the first that it
finds.
If -s is also given, toe additionally reports, like
conflict(1), which entries correspond to a given terminal
database. An “*” marks entries that differ, and “+” marks
equivalent entries.
Without the -s option, toe does not attempt to merge
duplicates in its report.
-h writes a heading naming each directory as it is accessed.
-s sorts the output by the entry names.
-u file
lists terminal type dependencies in file, a terminfo entry
source or termcap database file. The report summarizes the
“use” (terminfo) and tc (termcap) relations: each line
comprises the primary name of a terminal type employing
use/tc capabilities, a colon, a space- and tab-separated
list of primary names of terminal types thus named, and a
newline.
-U file
lists terminal type reverse dependencies in file, a
terminfo entry source or termcap database file. The report
summarizes the “use” (terminfo) and tc (termcap) reverse
relations: each line comprises the primary name of a
terminal type occurring in use/tc capabilities, a colon, a
space- and tab-separated list of primary names of terminal
types naming them thus, and a newline.
-v [n] reports verbose status information to the standard error
stream, showing toe's progress.
The optional parameter n is an integer between 1 and 10
inclusive, interpreted as for tic(1M). If ncurses is built
without tracing support, n is ignored.
-V reports the version of ncurses associated with this program
and exits with a successful status.
terminfo
compiled terminal description database
toe is not provided by other implementations. There is no
applicable X/Open or POSIX standard for it.
toe replaces a -T option that was briefly supported by the ncurses
infocmp utility in 1995.
The -a and -s options were added in 2006 and 2011, respectively.
The program's name originates with a developer's pun:
• tic,
• tac (now tack),
• toe.
When not sorting with the -s option, the -a option reports all of
the names found in all of the terminal database directories named
in the TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS environment variables.
xterm-color generic color xterm
xterm-xfree86 xterm terminal emulator (XFree86)
xterm-vt220 xterm emulating vt220
xterm-256color xterm with 256 colors
xterm-r6 xterm X11R6 version
xterm-r5 xterm R5 version
xterm-mono monochrome xterm
xterm xterm terminal emulator (X Window System)
vt220 dec vt220
vt102 dec vt102
vt100 dec vt100 (w/advanced video)
vt52 dec vt52
...
Use the -a and -s options together to show where each terminal
description was found.
--> /etc/terminfo
----> /lib/terminfo
------> /usr/share/terminfo
--*---: vt100 dec vt100 (w/advanced video)
--*---: vt102 dec vt102
--*---: vt220 dec vt220
--*---: vt52 dec vt52
--*---: xterm xterm terminal emulator (X Window
System)
--*---: xterm-256color xterm with 256 colors
--*---: xterm-color generic color xterm
--*---: xterm-mono monochrome xterm
--*---: xterm-r5 xterm R5 version
--*---: xterm-r6 xterm X11R6 version
--*---: xterm-vt220 xterm emulating vt220
--*---: xterm-xfree86 xterm terminal emulator (XFree86)
...
captoinfo(1M), infocmp(1M), infotocap(1M), tic(1M), curses(3X),
terminfo(5)
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