NAME
toe - list table of entries of terminfo terminal types
SYNOPSIS
toe [-ahs] [-v [n]] [directory ...]
toe [-u|-U] file
toe -V
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
The -h option can be helpful to observe where toe is looking for terminal descriptions. Other options support maintainers of terminfo terminal descriptions.
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-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.
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-h |
writes a heading naming each each directory as it is accessed. | ||
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-s |
sorts the output by the entry names. | ||
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-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. | ||
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-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. | ||
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-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(1). If ncurses is built without tracing support, n is ignored.
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-V |
reports the version of ncurses associated with this program and exits with a successful status. |
FILES
/etc/terminfo
compiled terminal description database
PORTABILITY
toe is not provided by other implementations. There is no applicable X/Open or POSIX standard for it.
HISTORY
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:
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tic, |
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tac (now tack), |
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toe. |
EXAMPLES
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.
Use the -a and -s options together to show where each terminal description was found.
SEE ALSO
captoinfo(1), infocmp(1), infotocap(1), tic(1), ncurses(3NCURSES), terminfo(5)