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tput(1)                                                         tput(1)




NAME

       tput,  reset  -  initialize  a  terminal or query terminfo
       database


SYNOPSIS

       tput [-Ttype] capname [parms ... ]
       tput [-Ttype] init
       tput [-Ttype] reset
       tput [-Ttype] longname
       tput -S  <<
       tput -V


DESCRIPTION

       The tput utility uses the terminfo database  to  make  the
       values  of terminal-dependent capabilities and information
       available to the shell (see sh(1)), to initialize or reset
       the  terminal,  or  return  the long name of the requested
       terminal type.  The result depends upon  the  capability's
       type:

              string
                   tput writes the string to the standard output.
                   No trailing newline is supplied.

              integer
                   tput writes the decimal value to the  standard
                   output, with a trailing newline.

              boolean
                   tput  simply sets the exit code (0 for TRUE if
                   the terminal has the capability, 1  for  FALSE
                   if  it  does  not),  and writes nothing to the
                   standard output.

       Before using a value returned on the standard output,  the
       application  should  test  the  exit  code  (e.g., $?, see
       sh(1)) to be sure it is 0.  (See the EXIT CODES and  DIAG-
       NOSTICS  sections.)   For  a complete list of capabilities
       and the capname associated with each, see terminfo(5).

       -Ttype indicates the  type  of  terminal.   Normally  this
              option is unnecessary, because the default is taken
              from the environment variable TERM.  If -T is spec-
              ified,  then  the shell variables LINES and COLUMNS
              will be ignored,and the operating system  will  not
              be queried for the actual screen size.

       capname
              indicates  the  capability  from the terminfo data-
              base.  When termcap support  is  compiled  in,  the
              termcap name for the capability is also accepted.

       parms  If  the  capability  is a string that takes parame-
              ters, the arguments parms will be instantiated into
              the string.

              Most  parameters  are numbers.  Only a few terminfo
              capabilities require string parameters; tput uses a
              table to decide which to pass as strings.  Normally
              tput uses tparm (3x) to perform  the  substitution.
              If no parameters are given for the capability, tput
              writes the string without performing the  substitu-
              tion.

       -S     allows  more  than one capability per invocation of
              tput.  The capabilities must be passed to tput from
              the standard input instead of from the command line
              (see example).  Only one  capname  is  allowed  per
              line.   The  -S option changes the meaning of the 0
              and 1 boolean and string exit codes (see  the  EXIT
              CODES section).

              Again, tput uses a table and the presence of param-
              eters in its input to decide whether to  use  tparm
              (3x), and how to interpret the parameters.

       -V     reports  the  version  of ncurses which was used in
              this program, and exits.

       init   If the terminfo database is present  and  an  entry
              for the user's terminal exists (see -Ttype, above),
              the following will occur:

              (1)    if present,  the  terminal's  initialization
                     strings  will  be  output as detailed in the
                     terminfo(5) section on Tabs and  Initializa-
                     tion,

              (2)    any  delays (e.g., newline) specified in the
                     entry will be set in the tty driver,

              (3)    tabs expansion will  be  turned  on  or  off
                     according to the specification in the entry,
                     and

              (4)    if tabs are not expanded, standard tabs will
                     be set (every 8 spaces).

              If an entry does not contain the information needed
              for any of the four above activities, that activity
              will silently be skipped.

       reset  Instead  of putting out initialization strings, the
              terminal's reset strings will be output if  present
              (rs1,  rs2, rs3, rf).  If the reset strings are not
              present, but initialization strings are,  the  ini-
              tialization  strings  will  be  output.  Otherwise,
              reset acts identically to init.

       longname
              If the terminfo database is present  and  an  entry
              for  the user's terminal exists (see -Ttype above),
              then the long name of the terminal will be put out.
              The long name is the last name in the first line of
              the terminal's description in the terminfo database
              [see term(5)].

       If  tput  is  invoked  by a link named reset, this has the
       same effect as tput reset.  See tset for comparison, which
       has similar behavior.


EXAMPLES

       tput init
            Initialize the terminal according to the type of ter-
            minal in the environmental variable TERM.  This  com-
            mand  should be included in everyone's .profile after
            the environmental variable TERM has been exported, as
            illustrated on the profile(5) manual page.

       tput -T5620 reset
            Reset  an  AT&T 5620 terminal, overriding the type of
            terminal in the environmental variable TERM.

       tput cup 0 0
            Send the sequence to move the cursor to row 0, column
            0 (the upper left corner of the screen, usually known
            as the "home" cursor position).

       tput clear
            Echo the clear-screen sequence for the current termi-
            nal.

       tput cols
            Print the number of columns for the current terminal.

       tput -T450 cols
            Print the number of columns for the 450 terminal.

       bold=`tput smso` offbold=`tput rmso`
            Set the shell variables bold, to begin stand-out mode
            sequence, and offbold, to end standout mode sequence,
            for  the current terminal.  This might be followed by
            a prompt: echo  "${bold}Please  type  in  your  name:
            ${offbold}\c"

       tput hc
            Set  exit code to indicate if the current terminal is
            a hard copy terminal.

       tput cup 23 4
            Send the sequence to move the cursor to row 23,  col-
            umn 4.

       tput cup
            Send the terminfo string for cursor-movement, with no
            parameters substituted.

       tput longname
            Print the long name from the  terminfo  database  for
            the  type  of terminal specified in the environmental
            variable TERM.

            tput -S <<!
            > clear
            > cup 10 10
            > bold
            > !

            This example shows tput processing several  capabili-
            ties  in one invocation.  It clears the screen, moves
            the cursor to position  10,  10  and  turns  on  bold
            (extra  bright)  mode.   The list is terminated by an
            exclamation mark (!) on a line by itself.


FILES

       /usr/share/terminfo
              compiled terminal description database

       /usr/share/tabset/*
              tab settings for some terminals, in a format appro-
              priate   to  be  output  to  the  terminal  (escape
              sequences that set  margins  and  tabs);  for  more
              information, see the "Tabs and Initialization" sec-
              tion of terminfo(5)


EXIT CODES

       If the -S option is used, tput checks for errors from each
       line,  and if any errors are found, will set the exit code
       to 4 plus the number of lines with errors.  If  no  errors
       are  found,  the  exit  code is 0.  No indication of which
       line failed can be given so exit code 1 will never appear.
       Exit  codes 2, 3, and 4 retain their usual interpretation.
       If the -S option is not used, the exit code depends on the
       type of capname:

            boolean
                   a value of 0 is set for TRUE and 1 for FALSE.

            string a  value of 0 is set if the capname is defined
                   for this terminal type (the value  of  capname
                   is  returned on standard output); a value of 1
                   is set if capname is not defined for this ter-
                   minal  type  (nothing  is  written to standard
                   output).

            integer
                   a value of 0 is always  set,  whether  or  not
                   capname is defined for this terminal type.  To
                   determine if capname is defined for this  ter-
                   minal type, the user must test the value writ-
                   ten to standard output.  A value of  -1  means
                   that  capname is not defined for this terminal
                   type.

            other  reset or init may fail to find  their  respec-
                   tive  files.   In  that case, the exit code is
                   set to 4 + errno.

       Any other exit code indicates an error; see  the  DIAGNOS-
       TICS section.


DIAGNOSTICS

       tput prints the following error messages and sets the cor-
       responding exit codes.

       exit code   error message
       ---------------------------------------------------------------------
       0           (capname is a numeric variable that is not specified  in
                   the  terminfo(5)  database  for this terminal type, e.g.
                   tput -T450 lines and tput -T2621 xmc)
       1           no error message is printed, see the EXIT CODES section.
       2           usage error
       3           unknown terminal type or no terminfo database
       4           unknown terminfo capability capname
       >4          error occurred in -S
       ---------------------------------------------------------------------


PORTABILITY

       The longname and -S options, and  the  parameter-substitu-
       tion  features  used in the cup example, are not supported
       in BSD curses or in AT&T/USL curses before SVr4.

       X/Open documents only the operands  for  clear,  init  and
       reset.   In this implementation, clear is part of the cap-
       name support.  Other implementations of tput on SVr4-based
       systems such as Solaris, IRIX64 and HPUX as well as others
       such as AIX and Tru64 provide support  for  capname  oper-
       ands.   A  few platforms such as FreeBSD and NetBSD recog-
       nize termcap names rather than terminfo  capability  names
       in their respective tput commands.


SEE ALSO

       clear(1), stty(1), tabs(1), terminfo(5).

       This describes ncurses version 5.7 (patch 20101002).



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