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OSXFAQ Mac OS X UNIX Tip-of-the-Day

Week 102 - Unix Commands Reference II (21 March 2005)

by Adrian Mayo - Editor, OSXFAQ

Thursday - Commands to Control the Terminal

clear ... clear the terminal window

resize ... resize the terminal window
Option -s to simply specify rows and columns
$ resize -s 50 10

stty ... change the setting for the terminal
Option -a to display the current settings
Option -g to display in a form that can be used by -f
Option -f to set the display reading commands from a file

reset ... reset the terminal display
Useful after accidentally printing a binary file that messes up the terminal's settings

tty ... display the user's current terminal

toe ... display all terminfo entries by name
Reads the compiled terminfo database in /usr/share/terminfo/...

tic ... terminfo compiler
Reads terminfo descriptions and compiles them into the terminfo database in /usr/share/terminfo/...

infocmp ... compare and print terminfo descriptions

captoinfo ... convert termcap description to terminfo database

infotocap ... convert terminfo description to termcap description

tput ... query the terminfo database

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