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tput - change terminal characteristics
Návod, kniha: POSIX Programmer's Manual
tput [-T type] operand...
The
tput utility shall display terminal-dependent information. The manner
in which this information is retrieved is unspecified. The information
displayed shall clear the terminal screen, initialize the user's terminal, or
reset the user's terminal, depending on the operand given. The exact
consequences of displaying this information are unspecified.
The
tput utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines.
The following option shall be supported:
- -T type
- Indicate the type of terminal. If this option is not
supplied and the TERM variable is unset or null, an unspecified
default terminal type shall be used. The setting of type shall take
precedence over the value in TERM .
The following strings shall be supported as operands by the implementation in
the POSIX locale:
- clear
- Display the clear-screen sequence.
- init
- Display the sequence that initializes the user's terminal
in an implementation-defined manner.
- reset
- Display the sequence that resets the user's terminal in an
implementation-defined manner.
If a terminal does not support any of the operations described by these
operands, this shall not be considered an error condition.
Not used.
None.
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of
tput:
- LANG
- Provide a default value for the internationalization
variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 8.2, Internationalization
Variables for the precedence of internationalization variables used to
determine the values of locale categories.)
- LC_ALL
- If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of
all the other internationalization variables.
- LC_CTYPE
- Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of
bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to
multi-byte characters in arguments).
- LC_MESSAGES
- Determine the locale that should be used to affect the
format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
- NLSPATH
- Determine the location of message catalogs for the
processing of LC_MESSAGES .
- TERM
- Determine the terminal type. If this variable is unset or
null, and if the -T option is not specified, an unspecified default
terminal type shall be used.
Default.
If standard output is a terminal device, it may be used for writing the
appropriate sequence to clear the screen or reset or initialize the terminal.
If standard output is not a terminal device, undefined results occur.
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
None.
None.
The following exit values shall be returned:
- 0
- The requested string was written successfully.
- 1
- Unspecified.
- 2
- Usage error.
- 3
- No information is available about the specified terminal
type.
- 4
- The specified operand is invalid.
- >4
- An error occurred.
If one of the operands is not available for the terminal,
tput continues
processing the remaining operands.
The following sections are informative.
The difference between resetting and initializing a terminal is left
unspecified, as they vary greatly based on hardware types. In general,
resetting is a more severe action.
Some terminals use control characters to perform the stated functions, and on
such terminals it might make sense to use
tput to store the
initialization strings in a file or environment variable for later use.
However, because other terminals might rely on system calls to do this work,
the standard output cannot be used in a portable manner, such as the following
non-portable constructs:
ClearVar=`tput clear`
tput reset | mailx -s "Wake Up" ddg
- 1.
- Initialize the terminal according to the type of terminal
in the environmental variable TERM . This command can be included
in a .profile file.
- 2.
- Reset a 450 terminal.
The list of operands was reduced to a minimum for the following reasons:
- *
- The only features chosen were those that were likely to be
used by human users interacting with a terminal.
- *
- Specifying the full terminfo set was not considered
desirable, but the standard developers did not want to select among
operands.
- *
- This volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 does not
attempt to provide applications with sophisticated terminal handling
capabilities, as that falls outside of its assigned scope and intersects
with the responsibilities of other standards bodies.
The difference between resetting and initializing a terminal is left unspecified
as this varies greatly based on hardware types. In general, resetting is a
more severe action.
The exit status of 1 is historically reserved for finding out if a Boolean
operand is not set. Although the operands were reduced to a minimum, the exit
status of 1 should still be reserved for the Boolean operands, for those sites
that wish to support them.
None.
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Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE
Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable
Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue
6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between
this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original
IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original
Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html
.
