toe − list table of entries of terminfo terminal types
toe [−ahs] [−v [n]] [directory ...]
toe [−u|−U] file
toe −V
toe reports to the standard output stream the (primary) names and descriptions of the terminal types available to the terminfo library. Each directory operand is scanned; if none are given, toe scans the the default terminfo directory.
The −h option can be helpful to observe where toe is looking for terminal descriptions. Other options support maintainers of terminfo terminal descriptions.
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−a |
lists entries from all terminal database directories that terminfo would search, instead of only the first that it finds. |
If the −s option is also given, toe adds a column to the report, showing (like conflict(1)) which entries belong to a given terminal database. An “*” marks entries that differ, and “+” marks equivalent entries.
Without the −s option, toe does not attempt to merge duplicates in its report.
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−h |
writes a heading naming each each directory as it is accessed. | ||
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−s |
sorts the output by the entry names. | ||
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−u file |
lists terminal type dependencies in file, a terminfo entry source or termcap database file. The report summarizes the “use” (terminfo) and tc (termcap) relations: each line comprises the primary name of a terminal type employing use/tc capabilities, a colon, a space- and tab-separated list of primary names of terminal types thus named, and a newline. | ||
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−U file |
lists terminal type reverse dependencies in file, a terminfo entry source or termcap database file. The report summarizes the “use” (terminfo) and tc (termcap) reverse relations: each line comprises the primary name of a terminal type occurring in use/tc capabilities, a colon, a space- and tab-separated list of primary names of terminal types naming them thus, and a newline. | ||
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−v [n] |
reports verbose status information to the standard error stream, showing toe’s progress. |
The optional parameter n is an integer between 1 and 10 inclusive, interpreted as for tic(1M). If ncurses is built without tracing support, n is ignored.
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−V |
reports the version of ncurses associated with this program and exits with a successful status. |
/usr/share/terminfo
compiled terminal description database
toe is not provided by other implementations. There is no applicable X/Open or POSIX standard for it.
It replaces a −T option that was briefly supported by the ncurses infocmp utility in 1995.
The −a and −s options were added in 2006 and 2011, respectively.
The program’s name originates with a developer’s pun:
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tic, |
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tac (now tack), |
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toe. |
When not sorting with the −s option, the −a option reports all of the names found in all of the terminal database directories named in the TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS environment variables.
Use the −a and −s options together to show where each terminal description was found.
captoinfo(1M), infocmp(1M), infotocap(1M), tic(1M), curses(3X), terminfo(5)