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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
54 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
55 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> [<STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM>] <EM>capname</EM> [<EM>parameters</EM>]
56 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> [<STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM>] <STRONG>clear</STRONG>
57 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> [<STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM>] <STRONG>init</STRONG>
58 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> [<STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM>] <STRONG>reset</STRONG>
59 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> [<STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM>] <STRONG>longname</STRONG>
60 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>-S</STRONG> <STRONG><<</STRONG>
61 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>-V</STRONG>
64 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
65 The <STRONG>tput</STRONG> utility uses the <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database to make the
66 values of terminal-dependent capabilities and information
67 available to the shell (see <STRONG>sh(1)</STRONG>), to initialize or reset
68 the terminal, or return the long name of the requested
69 terminal type. The result depends upon the capability's
73 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> writes the string to the standard output. No
74 trailing newline is supplied.
77 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> writes the decimal value to the standard out-
78 put, with a trailing newline.
81 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> simply sets the exit code (<STRONG>0</STRONG> for TRUE if the
82 terminal has the capability, <STRONG>1</STRONG> for FALSE if it
83 does not), and writes nothing to the standard out-
86 Before using a value returned on the standard output, the
87 application should test the exit code (e.g., <STRONG>$?</STRONG>, see
88 <STRONG>sh(1)</STRONG>) to be sure it is <STRONG>0</STRONG>. (See the <STRONG>EXIT</STRONG> <STRONG>CODES</STRONG> and <STRONG>DIAG-</STRONG>
89 <STRONG>NOSTICS</STRONG> sections.) For a complete list of capabilities
90 and the <EM>capname</EM> associated with each, see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
93 </PRE><H3><a name="h3-Options">Options</a></H3><PRE>
94 <STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM> indicates the <EM>type</EM> of terminal. Normally this
95 option is unnecessary, because the default is taken
96 from the environment variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>. If <STRONG>-T</STRONG> is spec-
97 ified, then the shell variables <STRONG>LINES</STRONG> and <STRONG>COLUMNS</STRONG>
100 <STRONG>-S</STRONG> allows more than one capability per invocation of
101 <STRONG>tput</STRONG>. The capabilities must be passed to <STRONG>tput</STRONG> from
102 the standard input instead of from the command line
103 (see example). Only one <EM>capname</EM> is allowed per
104 line. The <STRONG>-S</STRONG> option changes the meaning of the <STRONG>0</STRONG>
105 and <STRONG>1</STRONG> boolean and string exit codes (see the EXIT
108 Again, <STRONG>tput</STRONG> uses a table and the presence of param-
109 eters in its input to decide whether to use
110 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">tparm(3x)</A></STRONG>, and how to interpret the parameters.
112 <STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of ncurses which was used in
113 this program, and exits.
116 </PRE><H3><a name="h3-Commands">Commands</a></H3><PRE>
118 indicates the capability from the terminal data-
121 If the capability is a string that takes parame-
122 ters, the arguments following the capability will
123 be used as parameters for the string.
125 Most parameters are numbers. Only a few terminal
126 capabilities require string parameters; <STRONG>tput</STRONG> uses a
127 table to decide which to pass as strings. Normally
128 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> uses <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">tparm(3x)</A></STRONG> to perform the substitution.
129 If no parameters are given for the capability, <STRONG>tput</STRONG>
130 writes the string without performing the substitu-
133 <STRONG>init</STRONG> If the terminal database is present and an entry
134 for the user's terminal exists (see <STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM>, above),
135 the following will occur:
137 (1) first, <STRONG>tput</STRONG> retrieves the current terminal
138 mode settings for your terminal. It does this
139 by successively testing
141 <STRONG>o</STRONG> the standard error,
143 <STRONG>o</STRONG> standard output,
145 <STRONG>o</STRONG> standard input and
147 <STRONG>o</STRONG> ultimately "/dev/tty"
149 to obtain terminal settings. Having retrieved
150 these settings, <STRONG>tput</STRONG> remembers which file
151 descriptor to use when updating settings.
153 (2) if the window size cannot be obtained from the
154 operating system, but the terminal description
155 (or environment, e.g., <STRONG>LINES</STRONG> and <STRONG>COLUMNS</STRONG> vari-
156 ables specify this), update the operating sys-
157 tem's notion of the window size.
159 (3) the terminal modes will be updated:
161 <STRONG>o</STRONG> any delays (e.g., newline) specified in
162 the entry will be set in the tty driver,
164 <STRONG>o</STRONG> tabs expansion will be turned on or off
165 according to the specification in the
168 <STRONG>o</STRONG> if tabs are not expanded, standard tabs
169 will be set (every 8 spaces).
171 (4) if present, the terminal's initialization
172 strings will be output as detailed in the <STRONG>ter-</STRONG>
173 <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">minfo(5)</A></STRONG> section on <EM>Tabs</EM> <EM>and</EM> <EM>Initialization</EM>,
175 (5) output is flushed.
177 If an entry does not contain the information needed
178 for any of these activities, that activity will
181 <STRONG>reset</STRONG> This is similar to <STRONG>init</STRONG>, with two differences:
183 (1) before any other initialization, the terminal
184 modes will be reset to a "sane" state:
186 <STRONG>o</STRONG> set cooked and echo modes,
188 <STRONG>o</STRONG> turn off cbreak and raw modes,
190 <STRONG>o</STRONG> turn on newline translation and
192 <STRONG>o</STRONG> reset any unset special characters to
195 (2) Instead of putting out <EM>initialization</EM> strings,
196 the terminal's <EM>reset</EM> strings will be output if
197 present (<STRONG>rs1</STRONG>, <STRONG>rs2</STRONG>, <STRONG>rs3</STRONG>, <STRONG>rf</STRONG>). If the <EM>reset</EM>
198 strings are not present, but <EM>initialization</EM>
199 strings are, the <EM>initialization</EM> strings will
202 Otherwise, <STRONG>reset</STRONG> acts identically to <STRONG>init</STRONG>.
204 <STRONG>longname</STRONG>
205 If the terminal database is present and an entry
206 for the user's terminal exists (see <STRONG>-T</STRONG><EM>type</EM> above),
207 then the long name of the terminal will be put out.
208 The long name is the last name in the first line of
209 the terminal's description in the <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database
210 [see <STRONG><A HREF="term.5.html">term(5)</A></STRONG>].
213 </PRE><H3><a name="h3-Aliases">Aliases</a></H3><PRE>
214 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> handles the <STRONG>clear</STRONG>, <STRONG>init</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset</STRONG> commands specially:
215 it allows for the possibility that it is invoked by a link
218 If <STRONG>tput</STRONG> is invoked by a link named <STRONG>reset</STRONG>, this has the
219 same effect as <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>reset</STRONG>. The <STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG> utility also
220 treats a link named <STRONG>reset</STRONG> specially.
222 Before ncurses 6.1, the two utilities were different from
225 <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>tset</STRONG> utility reset the terminal modes and special
226 characters (not done with <STRONG>tput</STRONG>).
228 <STRONG>o</STRONG> On the other hand, <STRONG>tset</STRONG>'s repertoire of terminal capa-
229 bilities for resetting the terminal was more limited,
230 i.e., only <STRONG>reset_1string</STRONG>, <STRONG>reset_2string</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset_file</STRONG>
231 in contrast to the tab-stops and margins which are set
234 <STRONG>o</STRONG> The <STRONG>reset</STRONG> program is usually an alias for <STRONG>tset</STRONG>,
235 because of this difference with resetting terminal
236 modes and special characters.
238 With the changes made for ncurses 6.1, the <EM>reset</EM> feature
239 of the two programs is (mostly) the same. A few differ-
242 <STRONG>o</STRONG> The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> program waits one second when resetting, in
243 case it happens to be a hardware terminal.
245 <STRONG>o</STRONG> The two programs write the terminal initialization
246 strings to different streams (i.e.,. the standard
247 error for <STRONG>tset</STRONG> and the standard output for <STRONG>tput</STRONG>).
249 <STRONG>Note:</STRONG> although these programs write to different
250 streams, redirecting their output to a file will cap-
251 ture only part of their actions. The changes to the
252 terminal modes are not affected by redirecting the
255 If <STRONG>tput</STRONG> is invoked by a link named <STRONG>init</STRONG>, this has the same
256 effect as <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>init</STRONG>. Again, you are less likely to use
257 that link because another program named <STRONG>init</STRONG> has a more
258 well-established use.
261 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a></H2><PRE>
262 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>init</STRONG>
263 Initialize the terminal according to the type of ter-
264 minal in the environmental variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>. This com-
265 mand should be included in everyone's .profile after
266 the environmental variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> has been exported, as
267 illustrated on the <STRONG>profile(5)</STRONG> manual page.
269 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>-T5620</STRONG> <STRONG>reset</STRONG>
270 Reset an AT&T 5620 terminal, overriding the type of
271 terminal in the environmental variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>.
273 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>cup</STRONG> <STRONG>0</STRONG> <STRONG>0</STRONG>
274 Send the sequence to move the cursor to row <STRONG>0</STRONG>, column
275 <STRONG>0</STRONG> (the upper left corner of the screen, usually known
276 as the "home" cursor position).
278 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>clear</STRONG>
279 Echo the clear-screen sequence for the current termi-
282 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>cols</STRONG>
283 Print the number of columns for the current terminal.
285 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>-T450</STRONG> <STRONG>cols</STRONG>
286 Print the number of columns for the 450 terminal.
288 <STRONG>bold=`tput</STRONG> <STRONG>smso`</STRONG> <STRONG>offbold=`tput</STRONG> <STRONG>rmso`</STRONG>
289 Set the shell variables <STRONG>bold</STRONG>, to begin stand-out mode
290 sequence, and <STRONG>offbold</STRONG>, to end standout mode sequence,
291 for the current terminal. This might be followed by
292 a prompt: <STRONG>echo</STRONG> <STRONG>"${bold}Please</STRONG> <STRONG>type</STRONG> <STRONG>in</STRONG> <STRONG>your</STRONG> <STRONG>name:</STRONG>
293 <STRONG>${offbold}\c"</STRONG>
295 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>hc</STRONG>
296 Set exit code to indicate if the current terminal is
297 a hard copy terminal.
299 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>cup</STRONG> <STRONG>23</STRONG> <STRONG>4</STRONG>
300 Send the sequence to move the cursor to row 23, col-
303 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>cup</STRONG>
304 Send the terminfo string for cursor-movement, with no
305 parameters substituted.
307 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>longname</STRONG>
308 Print the long name from the <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database for
309 the type of terminal specified in the environmental
310 variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>.
312 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>-S</STRONG> <STRONG><<!</STRONG>
313 <STRONG>></STRONG> <STRONG>clear</STRONG>
314 <STRONG>></STRONG> <STRONG>cup</STRONG> <STRONG>10</STRONG> <STRONG>10</STRONG>
315 <STRONG>></STRONG> <STRONG>bold</STRONG>
316 <STRONG>></STRONG> <STRONG>!</STRONG>
318 This example shows <STRONG>tput</STRONG> processing several capabili-
319 ties in one invocation. It clears the screen, moves
320 the cursor to position 10, 10 and turns on bold
321 (extra bright) mode. The list is terminated by an
322 exclamation mark (<STRONG>!</STRONG>) on a line by itself.
325 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
326 <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG>
327 compiled terminal description database
329 <STRONG>/usr/share/tabset/*</STRONG>
330 tab settings for some terminals, in a format appro-
331 priate to be output to the terminal (escape
332 sequences that set margins and tabs); for more
333 information, see the <EM>Tabs</EM> <EM>and</EM> <EM>Initialization</EM>, sec-
334 tion of <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
337 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXIT-CODES">EXIT CODES</a></H2><PRE>
338 If the <STRONG>-S</STRONG> option is used, <STRONG>tput</STRONG> checks for errors from each
339 line, and if any errors are found, will set the exit code
340 to 4 plus the number of lines with errors. If no errors
341 are found, the exit code is <STRONG>0</STRONG>. No indication of which
342 line failed can be given so exit code <STRONG>1</STRONG> will never appear.
343 Exit codes <STRONG>2</STRONG>, <STRONG>3</STRONG>, and <STRONG>4</STRONG> retain their usual interpretation.
344 If the <STRONG>-S</STRONG> option is not used, the exit code depends on the
345 type of <EM>capname</EM>:
348 a value of <STRONG>0</STRONG> is set for TRUE and <STRONG>1</STRONG> for FALSE.
350 <EM>string</EM> a value of <STRONG>0</STRONG> is set if the <EM>capname</EM> is defined
351 for this terminal <EM>type</EM> (the value of <EM>capname</EM> is
352 returned on standard output); a value of <STRONG>1</STRONG> is
353 set if <EM>capname</EM> is not defined for this terminal
354 <EM>type</EM> (nothing is written to standard output).
357 a value of <STRONG>0</STRONG> is always set, whether or not <EM>cap-</EM>
358 <EM>name</EM> is defined for this terminal <EM>type</EM>. To
359 determine if <EM>capname</EM> is defined for this termi-
360 nal <EM>type</EM>, the user must test the value written
361 to standard output. A value of <STRONG>-1</STRONG> means that
362 <EM>capname</EM> is not defined for this terminal <EM>type</EM>.
364 <EM>other</EM> <STRONG>reset</STRONG> or <STRONG>init</STRONG> may fail to find their respective
365 files. In that case, the exit code is set to 4
366 + <STRONG>errno</STRONG>.
368 Any other exit code indicates an error; see the DIAGNOS-
372 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a></H2><PRE>
373 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> prints the following error messages and sets the cor-
374 responding exit codes.
376 exit code error message
377 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
378 <STRONG>0</STRONG> (<EM>capname</EM> is a numeric variable that is not specified in
379 the <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> database for this terminal type, e.g.
380 <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>-T450</STRONG> <STRONG>lines</STRONG> and <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>-T2621</STRONG> <STRONG>xmc</STRONG>)
381 <STRONG>1</STRONG> no error message is printed, see the <STRONG>EXIT</STRONG> <STRONG>CODES</STRONG> section.
382 <STRONG>2</STRONG> usage error
383 <STRONG>3</STRONG> unknown terminal <EM>type</EM> or no <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database
384 <STRONG>4</STRONG> unknown <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> capability <EM>capname</EM>
385 <STRONG>>4</STRONG> error occurred in -S
386 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
389 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
390 The <STRONG>tput</STRONG> command was begun by Bill Joy in 1980. The ini-
391 tial version only cleared the screen.
393 AT&T System V provided a different <STRONG>tput</STRONG> command, whose
394 <STRONG>init</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset</STRONG> subcommands (more than half the program)
395 were incorporated from the <STRONG>reset</STRONG> feature of BSD <STRONG>tset</STRONG> writ-
398 Keith Bostic replaced the BSD <STRONG>tput</STRONG> command in 1989 with a
399 new implementation based on the AT&T System V program
400 <STRONG>tput</STRONG>. Like the AT&T program, Bostic's version accepted
401 some parameters named for <EM>terminfo</EM> <EM>capabilities</EM> (<STRONG>clear</STRONG>,
402 <STRONG>init</STRONG>, <STRONG>longname</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset</STRONG>). However (because he had only
403 termcap available), it accepted <EM>termcap</EM> <EM>names</EM> for other
404 capabilities. Also, Bostic's BSD <STRONG>tput</STRONG> did not modify the
405 terminal I/O modes as the earlier BSD <STRONG>tset</STRONG> had done.
407 At the same time, Bostic added a shell script named
408 "clear", which used <STRONG>tput</STRONG> to clear the screen.
410 Both of these appeared in 4.4BSD, becoming the "modern"
411 BSD implementation of <STRONG>tput</STRONG>.
414 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
415 This implementation of <STRONG>tput</STRONG> differs from AT&T <STRONG>tput</STRONG> in two
418 <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>tput</STRONG> <EM>capname</EM> writes to the standard output. That need
419 not be a regular terminal. However, the subcommands
420 which manipulate terminal modes may not use the stan-
423 The AT&T implementation's <STRONG>init</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset</STRONG> commands use
424 the BSD (4.1c) <STRONG>tset</STRONG> source, which manipulates terminal
425 modes. It successively tries standard output, stan-
426 dard error, standard input before falling back to
427 "/dev/tty" and finally just assumes a 1200Bd terminal.
428 When updating terminal modes, it ignores errors.
430 Until changes made after ncurses 6.0, <STRONG>tput</STRONG> did not
431 modify terminal modes. <STRONG>tput</STRONG> now uses a similar
432 scheme, using functions shared with <STRONG>tset</STRONG> (and ulti-
433 mately based on the 4.4BSD <STRONG>tset</STRONG>). If it is not able
434 to open a terminal, e.g., when running in <STRONG>cron</STRONG>, <STRONG>tput</STRONG>
435 will return an error.
437 <STRONG>o</STRONG> AT&T <STRONG>tput</STRONG> guesses the type of its <EM>capname</EM> operands by
438 seeing if all of the characters are numeric, or not.
440 Most implementations which provide support for <EM>capname</EM>
441 operands use the <EM>tparm</EM> function to expand parameters
442 in it. That function expects a mixture of numeric and
443 string parameters, requiring <STRONG>tput</STRONG> to know which type
446 This implementation uses a table to determine the
447 parameter types for the standard <EM>capname</EM> operands, and
448 an internal library function to analyze nonstandard
449 <EM>capname</EM> operands.
451 This implementation (unlike others) can accept both <EM>term-</EM>
452 <EM>cap</EM> and <EM>terminfo</EM> names for the <EM>capname</EM> feature, if <EM>termcap</EM>
453 support is compiled in. However, the predefined <EM>termcap</EM>
454 and <EM>terminfo</EM> names have two ambiguities in this case (and
455 the <EM>terminfo</EM> name is assumed):
457 <STRONG>o</STRONG> The <EM>termcap</EM> name <STRONG>dl</STRONG> corresponds to the <EM>terminfo</EM> name
458 <STRONG>dl1</STRONG> (delete one line).
459 The <EM>terminfo</EM> name <STRONG>dl</STRONG> corresponds to the <EM>termcap</EM> name
460 <STRONG>DL</STRONG> (delete a given number of lines).
462 <STRONG>o</STRONG> The <EM>termcap</EM> name <STRONG>ed</STRONG> corresponds to the <EM>terminfo</EM> name
463 <STRONG>rmdc</STRONG> (end delete mode).
464 The <EM>terminfo</EM> name <STRONG>ed</STRONG> corresponds to the <EM>termcap</EM> name
465 <STRONG>cd</STRONG> (clear to end of screen).
467 The <STRONG>longname</STRONG> and <STRONG>-S</STRONG> options, and the parameter-substitu-
468 tion features used in the <STRONG>cup</STRONG> example, were not supported
469 in BSD curses before 4.3reno (1989) or in AT&T/USL curses
472 IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications Issue
473 7 (POSIX.1-2008) documents only the operands for <STRONG>clear</STRONG>,
474 <STRONG>init</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset</STRONG>. There are a few interesting observations
475 to make regarding that:
477 <STRONG>o</STRONG> In this implementation, <STRONG>clear</STRONG> is part of the <EM>capname</EM>
478 support. The others (<STRONG>init</STRONG> and <STRONG>longname</STRONG>) do not corre-
479 spond to terminal capabilities.
481 <STRONG>o</STRONG> Other implementations of <STRONG>tput</STRONG> on SVr4-based systems
482 such as Solaris, IRIX64 and HPUX as well as others
483 such as AIX and Tru64 provide support for <EM>capname</EM> op-
486 <STRONG>o</STRONG> A few platforms such as FreeBSD recognize termcap
487 names rather than terminfo capability names in their
488 respective <STRONG>tput</STRONG> commands. Since 2010, NetBSD's <STRONG>tput</STRONG>
489 uses terminfo names. Before that, it (like FreeBSD)
490 recognized termcap names.
492 Because (apparently) <EM>all</EM> of the certified Unix systems
493 support the full set of capability names, the reasoning
494 for documenting only a few may not be apparent.
496 <STRONG>o</STRONG> X/Open Curses Issue 7 documents <STRONG>tput</STRONG> differently, with
497 <EM>capname</EM> and the other features used in this implemen-
500 <STRONG>o</STRONG> That is, there are two standards for <STRONG>tput</STRONG>: POSIX (a
501 subset) and X/Open Curses (the full implementation).
502 POSIX documents a subset to avoid the complication of
503 including X/Open Curses and the terminal capabilities
506 <STRONG>o</STRONG> While it is certainly possible to write a <STRONG>tput</STRONG> program
507 without using curses, none of the systems which have a
508 curses implementation provide a <STRONG>tput</STRONG> utility which
509 does not provide the <EM>capname</EM> feature.
512 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
513 <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>,
514 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_termcap.3x.html">curs_termcap(3x)</A></STRONG>.
516 This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.0 (patch 20170121).
520 <STRONG><A HREF="tput.1.html">tput(1)</A></STRONG>
524 <li><a href="#h2-NAME">NAME</a></li>
525 <li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
526 <li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
528 <li><a href="#h3-Options">Options</a></li>
529 <li><a href="#h3-Commands">Commands</a></li>
530 <li><a href="#h3-Aliases">Aliases</a></li>
533 <li><a href="#h2-EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a></li>
534 <li><a href="#h2-FILES">FILES</a></li>
535 <li><a href="#h2-EXIT-CODES">EXIT CODES</a></li>
536 <li><a href="#h2-DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a></li>
537 <li><a href="#h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></li>
538 <li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
539 <li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>