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49 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
50 <STRONG>tput</STRONG>, <STRONG>reset</STRONG> - initialize a terminal or query terminfo database
53 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
54 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> [<STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM>] <EM>capname</EM> [<EM>parameters</EM>]
55 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> [<STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM>] [<STRONG>-x</STRONG>] <STRONG>clear</STRONG>
56 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> [<STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM>] <STRONG>init</STRONG>
57 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> [<STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM>] <STRONG>reset</STRONG>
58 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> [<STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM>] <STRONG>longname</STRONG>
59 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>-S</STRONG> <STRONG><<</STRONG>
60 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>-V</STRONG>
63 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
64 The <STRONG>tput</STRONG> utility uses the <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database to make the values of ter-
65 minal-dependent capabilities and information available to the shell
66 (see <STRONG>sh(1)</STRONG>), to initialize or reset the terminal, or return the long
67 name of the requested terminal type. The result depends upon the capa-
71 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> writes the string to the standard output. No trailing
75 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> writes the decimal value to the standard output, with a
79 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> simply sets the exit code (<STRONG>0</STRONG> for TRUE if the terminal has
80 the capability, <STRONG>1</STRONG> for FALSE if it does not), and writes nothing
81 to the standard output.
83 Before using a value returned on the standard output, the application
84 should test the exit code (e.g., <STRONG>$?</STRONG>, see <STRONG>sh(1)</STRONG>) to be sure it is <STRONG>0</STRONG>.
85 (See the <STRONG>EXIT</STRONG> <STRONG>CODES</STRONG> and <STRONG>DIAGNOSTICS</STRONG> sections.) For a complete list of
86 capabilities and the <EM>capname</EM> associated with each, see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
89 </PRE><H3><a name="h3-Options">Options</a></H3><PRE>
90 <STRONG>-S</STRONG> allows more than one capability per invocation of <STRONG>tput</STRONG>. The
91 capabilities must be passed to <STRONG>tput</STRONG> from the standard input
92 instead of from the command line (see example). Only one <EM>cap-</EM>
93 <EM>name</EM> is allowed per line. The <STRONG>-S</STRONG> option changes the meaning of
94 the <STRONG>0</STRONG> and <STRONG>1</STRONG> boolean and string exit codes (see the EXIT CODES
97 Because some capabilities may use <EM>string</EM> parameters rather than
98 <EM>numbers</EM>, <STRONG>tput</STRONG> uses a table and the presence of parameters in its
99 input to decide whether to use <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">tparm(3x)</A></STRONG>, and how to interpret
102 <STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM> indicates the <EM>type</EM> of terminal. Normally this option is unnec-
103 essary, because the default is taken from the environment vari-
104 able <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>. If <STRONG>-T</STRONG> is specified, then the shell variables <STRONG>LINES</STRONG>
105 and <STRONG>COLUMNS</STRONG> will also be ignored.
107 <STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program,
110 <STRONG>-x</STRONG> do not attempt to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer using
111 the extended "E3" capability.
114 </PRE><H3><a name="h3-Commands">Commands</a></H3><PRE>
115 A few commands (<STRONG>init</STRONG>, <STRONG>reset</STRONG> and <STRONG>longname</STRONG>) are special; they are defined
116 by the <STRONG>tput</STRONG> program. The others are the names of <EM>capabilities</EM> from the
117 terminal database (see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> for a list). Although <STRONG>init</STRONG> and
118 <STRONG>reset</STRONG> resemble capability names, <STRONG>tput</STRONG> uses several capabilities to per-
119 form these special functions.
122 indicates the capability from the terminal database.
124 If the capability is a string that takes parameters, the argu-
125 ments following the capability will be used as parameters for
128 Most parameters are numbers. Only a few terminal capabilities
129 require string parameters; <STRONG>tput</STRONG> uses a table to decide which to
130 pass as strings. Normally <STRONG>tput</STRONG> uses <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">tparm(3x)</A></STRONG> to perform the
131 substitution. If no parameters are given for the capability,
132 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> writes the string without performing the substitution.
134 <STRONG>init</STRONG> If the terminal database is present and an entry for the user's
135 terminal exists (see <STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM>, above), the following will occur:
137 (1) first, <STRONG>tput</STRONG> retrieves the current terminal mode settings
138 for your terminal. It does this by successively testing
140 <STRONG>o</STRONG> the standard error,
142 <STRONG>o</STRONG> standard output,
144 <STRONG>o</STRONG> standard input and
146 <STRONG>o</STRONG> ultimately "/dev/tty"
148 to obtain terminal settings. Having retrieved these set-
149 tings, <STRONG>tput</STRONG> remembers which file descriptor to use when
152 (2) if the window size cannot be obtained from the operating
153 system, but the terminal description (or environment, e.g.,
154 <STRONG>LINES</STRONG> and <STRONG>COLUMNS</STRONG> variables specify this), update the oper-
155 ating system's notion of the window size.
157 (3) the terminal modes will be updated:
159 <STRONG>o</STRONG> any delays (e.g., newline) specified in the entry will
160 be set in the tty driver,
162 <STRONG>o</STRONG> tabs expansion will be turned on or off according to
163 the specification in the entry, and
165 <STRONG>o</STRONG> if tabs are not expanded, standard tabs will be set
168 (4) if present, the terminal's initialization strings will be
169 output as detailed in the <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> section on <EM>Tabs</EM> <EM>and</EM>
170 <EM>Initialization</EM>,
172 (5) output is flushed.
174 If an entry does not contain the information needed for any of
175 these activities, that activity will silently be skipped.
177 <STRONG>reset</STRONG> This is similar to <STRONG>init</STRONG>, with two differences:
179 (1) before any other initialization, the terminal modes will be
180 reset to a "sane" state:
182 <STRONG>o</STRONG> set cooked and echo modes,
184 <STRONG>o</STRONG> turn off cbreak and raw modes,
186 <STRONG>o</STRONG> turn on newline translation and
188 <STRONG>o</STRONG> reset any unset special characters to their default
191 (2) Instead of putting out <EM>initialization</EM> strings, the termi-
192 nal's <EM>reset</EM> strings will be output if present (<STRONG>rs1</STRONG>, <STRONG>rs2</STRONG>,
193 <STRONG>rs3</STRONG>, <STRONG>rf</STRONG>). If the <EM>reset</EM> strings are not present, but <EM>ini-</EM>
194 <EM>tialization</EM> strings are, the <EM>initialization</EM> strings will be
197 Otherwise, <STRONG>reset</STRONG> acts identically to <STRONG>init</STRONG>.
199 <STRONG>longname</STRONG>
200 If the terminal database is present and an entry for the user's
201 terminal exists (see <STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM> above), then the long name of the
202 terminal will be put out. The long name is the last name in the
203 first line of the terminal's description in the <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> data-
204 base [see <STRONG><A HREF="term.5.html">term(5)</A></STRONG>].
207 </PRE><H3><a name="h3-Aliases">Aliases</a></H3><PRE>
208 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> handles the <STRONG>clear</STRONG>, <STRONG>init</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset</STRONG> commands specially: it allows
209 for the possibility that it is invoked by a link with those names.
211 If <STRONG>tput</STRONG> is invoked by a link named <STRONG>reset</STRONG>, this has the same effect as
212 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>reset</STRONG>. The <STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG> utility also treats a link named <STRONG>reset</STRONG> spe-
215 Before ncurses 6.1, the two utilities were different from each other:
217 <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>tset</STRONG> utility reset the terminal modes and special characters (not
218 done with <STRONG>tput</STRONG>).
220 <STRONG>o</STRONG> On the other hand, <STRONG>tset</STRONG>'s repertoire of terminal capabilities for
221 resetting the terminal was more limited, i.e., only <STRONG>reset_1string</STRONG>,
222 <STRONG>reset_2string</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset_file</STRONG> in contrast to the tab-stops and mar-
223 gins which are set by this utility.
225 <STRONG>o</STRONG> The <STRONG>reset</STRONG> program is usually an alias for <STRONG>tset</STRONG>, because of this
226 difference with resetting terminal modes and special characters.
228 With the changes made for ncurses 6.1, the <EM>reset</EM> feature of the two
229 programs is (mostly) the same. A few differences remain:
231 <STRONG>o</STRONG> The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> program waits one second when resetting, in case it hap-
232 pens to be a hardware terminal.
234 <STRONG>o</STRONG> The two programs write the terminal initialization strings to dif-
235 ferent streams (i.e.,. the standard error for <STRONG>tset</STRONG> and the standard
236 output for <STRONG>tput</STRONG>).
238 <STRONG>Note:</STRONG> although these programs write to different streams, redirect-
239 ing their output to a file will capture only part of their actions.
240 The changes to the terminal modes are not affected by redirecting
243 If <STRONG>tput</STRONG> is invoked by a link named <STRONG>init</STRONG>, this has the same effect as
244 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>init</STRONG>. Again, you are less likely to use that link because another
245 program named <STRONG>init</STRONG> has a more well-established use.
248 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a></H2><PRE>
249 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>init</STRONG>
250 Initialize the terminal according to the type of terminal in the
251 environmental variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>. This command should be included in
252 everyone's .profile after the environmental variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> has been
253 exported, as illustrated on the <STRONG>profile(5)</STRONG> manual page.
255 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>-T5620</STRONG> <STRONG>reset</STRONG>
256 Reset an AT&T 5620 terminal, overriding the type of terminal in
257 the environmental variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>.
259 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>cup</STRONG> <STRONG>0</STRONG> <STRONG>0</STRONG>
260 Send the sequence to move the cursor to row <STRONG>0</STRONG>, column <STRONG>0</STRONG> (the upper
261 left corner of the screen, usually known as the "home" cursor
264 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>clear</STRONG>
265 Echo the clear-screen sequence for the current terminal.
267 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>cols</STRONG>
268 Print the number of columns for the current terminal.
270 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>-T450</STRONG> <STRONG>cols</STRONG>
271 Print the number of columns for the 450 terminal.
273 <STRONG>bold=`tput</STRONG> <STRONG>smso`</STRONG> <STRONG>offbold=`tput</STRONG> <STRONG>rmso`</STRONG>
274 Set the shell variables <STRONG>bold</STRONG>, to begin stand-out mode sequence,
275 and <STRONG>offbold</STRONG>, to end standout mode sequence, for the current termi-
276 nal. This might be followed by a prompt: <STRONG>echo</STRONG> <STRONG>"${bold}Please</STRONG> <STRONG>type</STRONG>
277 <STRONG>in</STRONG> <STRONG>your</STRONG> <STRONG>name:</STRONG> <STRONG>${offbold}\c"</STRONG>
279 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>hc</STRONG>
280 Set exit code to indicate if the current terminal is a hard copy
283 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>cup</STRONG> <STRONG>23</STRONG> <STRONG>4</STRONG>
284 Send the sequence to move the cursor to row 23, column 4.
286 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>cup</STRONG>
287 Send the terminfo string for cursor-movement, with no parameters
290 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>longname</STRONG>
291 Print the long name from the <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database for the type of
292 terminal specified in the environmental variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>.
294 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>-S</STRONG> <STRONG><<!</STRONG>
295 <STRONG>></STRONG> <STRONG>clear</STRONG>
296 <STRONG>></STRONG> <STRONG>cup</STRONG> <STRONG>10</STRONG> <STRONG>10</STRONG>
297 <STRONG>></STRONG> <STRONG>bold</STRONG>
298 <STRONG>></STRONG> <STRONG>!</STRONG>
300 This example shows <STRONG>tput</STRONG> processing several capabilities in one
301 invocation. It clears the screen, moves the cursor to position
302 10, 10 and turns on bold (extra bright) mode. The list is termi-
303 nated by an exclamation mark (<STRONG>!</STRONG>) on a line by itself.
306 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
307 <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG>
308 compiled terminal description database
310 <STRONG>/usr/share/tabset/*</STRONG>
311 tab settings for some terminals, in a format appropriate to be
312 output to the terminal (escape sequences that set margins and
313 tabs); for more information, see the <EM>Tabs</EM> <EM>and</EM> <EM>Initialization</EM>,
314 section of <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
317 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXIT-CODES">EXIT CODES</a></H2><PRE>
318 If the <STRONG>-S</STRONG> option is used, <STRONG>tput</STRONG> checks for errors from each line, and if
319 any errors are found, will set the exit code to 4 plus the number of
320 lines with errors. If no errors are found, the exit code is <STRONG>0</STRONG>. No
321 indication of which line failed can be given so exit code <STRONG>1</STRONG> will never
322 appear. Exit codes <STRONG>2</STRONG>, <STRONG>3</STRONG>, and <STRONG>4</STRONG> retain their usual interpretation. If
323 the <STRONG>-S</STRONG> option is not used, the exit code depends on the type of <EM>cap-</EM>
327 a value of <STRONG>0</STRONG> is set for TRUE and <STRONG>1</STRONG> for FALSE.
329 <EM>string</EM> a value of <STRONG>0</STRONG> is set if the <EM>capname</EM> is defined for this termi-
330 nal <EM>type</EM> (the value of <EM>capname</EM> is returned on standard out-
331 put); a value of <STRONG>1</STRONG> is set if <EM>capname</EM> is not defined for this
332 terminal <EM>type</EM> (nothing is written to standard output).
335 a value of <STRONG>0</STRONG> is always set, whether or not <EM>capname</EM> is defined
336 for this terminal <EM>type</EM>. To determine if <EM>capname</EM> is defined
337 for this terminal <EM>type</EM>, the user must test the value written
338 to standard output. A value of <STRONG>-1</STRONG> means that <EM>capname</EM> is not
339 defined for this terminal <EM>type</EM>.
341 <EM>other</EM> <STRONG>reset</STRONG> or <STRONG>init</STRONG> may fail to find their respective files. In
342 that case, the exit code is set to 4 + <STRONG>errno</STRONG>.
344 Any other exit code indicates an error; see the DIAGNOSTICS section.
347 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a></H2><PRE>
348 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> prints the following error messages and sets the corresponding
351 exit code error message
352 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
353 <STRONG>0</STRONG> (<EM>capname</EM> is a numeric variable that is not specified in
354 the <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> database for this terminal type, e.g.
355 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>-T450</STRONG> <STRONG>lines</STRONG> and <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>-T2621</STRONG> <STRONG>xmc</STRONG>)
356 <STRONG>1</STRONG> no error message is printed, see the <STRONG>EXIT</STRONG> <STRONG>CODES</STRONG> section.
357 <STRONG>2</STRONG> usage error
358 <STRONG>3</STRONG> unknown terminal <EM>type</EM> or no <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database
359 <STRONG>4</STRONG> unknown <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> capability <EM>capname</EM>
360 <STRONG>>4</STRONG> error occurred in -S
361 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
364 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
365 The <STRONG>tput</STRONG> command was begun by Bill Joy in 1980. The initial version
366 only cleared the screen.
368 AT&T System V provided a different <STRONG>tput</STRONG> command, whose <STRONG>init</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset</STRONG>
369 subcommands (more than half the program) were incorporated from the
370 <STRONG>reset</STRONG> feature of BSD <STRONG>tset</STRONG> written by Eric Allman.
372 Keith Bostic replaced the BSD <STRONG>tput</STRONG> command in 1989 with a new implemen-
373 tation based on the AT&T System V program <STRONG>tput</STRONG>. Like the AT&T program,
374 Bostic's version accepted some parameters named for <EM>terminfo</EM> <EM>capabili-</EM>
375 <EM>ties</EM> (<STRONG>clear</STRONG>, <STRONG>init</STRONG>, <STRONG>longname</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset</STRONG>). However (because he had only
376 termcap available), it accepted <EM>termcap</EM> <EM>names</EM> for other capabilities.
377 Also, Bostic's BSD <STRONG>tput</STRONG> did not modify the terminal I/O modes as the
378 earlier BSD <STRONG>tset</STRONG> had done.
380 At the same time, Bostic added a shell script named "clear", which used
381 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> to clear the screen.
383 Both of these appeared in 4.4BSD, becoming the "modern" BSD implementa-
384 tion of <STRONG>tput</STRONG>.
386 This implementation of <STRONG>tput</STRONG> began from a different source than AT&T or
387 BSD: Ross Ridge's <EM>mytinfo</EM> package, published on <EM>comp.sources.unix</EM> in
388 December 1992. Ridge's program made more sophisticated use of the ter-
389 minal capabilities than the BSD program. Eric Raymond used the <STRONG>tput</STRONG>
390 program (and other parts of <EM>mytinfo</EM>) in ncurses in June 1995. Using
391 the portions dealing with terminal capabilities almost without change,
392 Raymond made improvements to the way the command-line parameters were
396 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
397 This implementation of <STRONG>tput</STRONG> differs from AT&T <STRONG>tput</STRONG> in two important
400 <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <EM>capname</EM> writes to the standard output. That need not be a
401 regular terminal. However, the subcommands which manipulate termi-
402 nal modes may not use the standard output.
404 The AT&T implementation's <STRONG>init</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset</STRONG> commands use the BSD
405 (4.1c) <STRONG>tset</STRONG> source, which manipulates terminal modes. It succes-
406 sively tries standard output, standard error, standard input before
407 falling back to "/dev/tty" and finally just assumes a 1200Bd termi-
408 nal. When updating terminal modes, it ignores errors.
410 Until changes made after ncurses 6.0, <STRONG>tput</STRONG> did not modify terminal
411 modes. <STRONG>tput</STRONG> now uses a similar scheme, using functions shared with
412 <STRONG>tset</STRONG> (and ultimately based on the 4.4BSD <STRONG>tset</STRONG>). If it is not able
413 to open a terminal, e.g., when running in <STRONG>cron</STRONG>, <STRONG>tput</STRONG> will return an
416 <STRONG>o</STRONG> AT&T <STRONG>tput</STRONG> guesses the type of its <EM>capname</EM> operands by seeing if all
417 of the characters are numeric, or not.
419 Most implementations which provide support for <EM>capname</EM> operands use
420 the <EM>tparm</EM> function to expand parameters in it. That function
421 expects a mixture of numeric and string parameters, requiring <STRONG>tput</STRONG>
422 to know which type to use.
424 This implementation uses a table to determine the parameter types
425 for the standard <EM>capname</EM> operands, and an internal library function
426 to analyze nonstandard <EM>capname</EM> operands.
428 This implementation (unlike others) can accept both <EM>termcap</EM> and <EM>ter-</EM>
429 <EM>minfo</EM> names for the <EM>capname</EM> feature, if <EM>termcap</EM> support is compiled in.
430 However, the predefined <EM>termcap</EM> and <EM>terminfo</EM> names have two ambiguities
431 in this case (and the <EM>terminfo</EM> name is assumed):
433 <STRONG>o</STRONG> The <EM>termcap</EM> name <STRONG>dl</STRONG> corresponds to the <EM>terminfo</EM> name <STRONG>dl1</STRONG> (delete
435 The <EM>terminfo</EM> name <STRONG>dl</STRONG> corresponds to the <EM>termcap</EM> name <STRONG>DL</STRONG> (delete a
436 given number of lines).
438 <STRONG>o</STRONG> The <EM>termcap</EM> name <STRONG>ed</STRONG> corresponds to the <EM>terminfo</EM> name <STRONG>rmdc</STRONG> (end
440 The <EM>terminfo</EM> name <STRONG>ed</STRONG> corresponds to the <EM>termcap</EM> name <STRONG>cd</STRONG> (clear to
443 The <STRONG>longname</STRONG> and <STRONG>-S</STRONG> options, and the parameter-substitution features
444 used in the <STRONG>cup</STRONG> example, were not supported in BSD curses before
445 4.3reno (1989) or in AT&T/USL curses before SVr4 (1988).
447 IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7
448 (POSIX.1-2008) documents only the operands for <STRONG>clear</STRONG>, <STRONG>init</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset</STRONG>.
449 There are a few interesting observations to make regarding that:
451 <STRONG>o</STRONG> In this implementation, <STRONG>clear</STRONG> is part of the <EM>capname</EM> support. The
452 others (<STRONG>init</STRONG> and <STRONG>longname</STRONG>) do not correspond to terminal capabili-
455 <STRONG>o</STRONG> Other implementations of <STRONG>tput</STRONG> on SVr4-based systems such as
456 Solaris, IRIX64 and HPUX as well as others such as AIX and Tru64
457 provide support for <EM>capname</EM> operands.
459 <STRONG>o</STRONG> A few platforms such as FreeBSD recognize termcap names rather than
460 terminfo capability names in their respective <STRONG>tput</STRONG> commands. Since
461 2010, NetBSD's <STRONG>tput</STRONG> uses terminfo names. Before that, it (like
462 FreeBSD) recognized termcap names.
464 Because (apparently) <EM>all</EM> of the certified Unix systems support the full
465 set of capability names, the reasoning for documenting only a few may
468 <STRONG>o</STRONG> X/Open Curses Issue 7 documents <STRONG>tput</STRONG> differently, with <EM>capname</EM> and
469 the other features used in this implementation.
471 <STRONG>o</STRONG> That is, there are two standards for <STRONG>tput</STRONG>: POSIX (a subset) and
472 X/Open Curses (the full implementation). POSIX documents a subset
473 to avoid the complication of including X/Open Curses and the termi-
474 nal capabilities database.
476 <STRONG>o</STRONG> While it is certainly possible to write a <STRONG>tput</STRONG> program without
477 using curses, none of the systems which have a curses implementa-
478 tion provide a <STRONG>tput</STRONG> utility which does not provide the <EM>capname</EM> fea-
482 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
483 <STRONG><A HREF="clear.1.html">clear(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>stty(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tabs.1.html">tabs(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_termcap.3x.html">curs_termcap(3x)</A></STRONG>.
485 This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.1 (patch 20180519).
489 <STRONG><A HREF="tput.1.html">tput(1)</A></STRONG>
493 <li><a href="#h2-NAME">NAME</a></li>
494 <li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
495 <li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
497 <li><a href="#h3-Options">Options</a></li>
498 <li><a href="#h3-Commands">Commands</a></li>
499 <li><a href="#h3-Aliases">Aliases</a></li>
502 <li><a href="#h2-EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a></li>
503 <li><a href="#h2-FILES">FILES</a></li>
504 <li><a href="#h2-EXIT-CODES">EXIT CODES</a></li>
505 <li><a href="#h2-DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a></li>
506 <li><a href="#h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></li>
507 <li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
508 <li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>