tput - change terminal characteristics
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:
The following strings shall be supported as operands by the implementation in the POSIX locale:
If a terminal does not support any of the operations described by these operands, this shall not be considered an error condition.
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of tput:
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.
The following exit values shall be returned:
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
Initialize the terminal according to the type of terminal in the environmental variable TERM . This command can be included in a .profile file.
tput init
Reset a 450 terminal.
tput -T 450 reset
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.
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