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toe

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
FILES
PORTABILITY
HISTORY
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO

NAME

toe - list table of entries of terminfo terminal types

SYNOPSIS

toe [ -ahs ] [ -v [ n ]] [ directory ...]

toe [ -u | -U ] file

toe -V

DESCRIPTION

toe reports to the standard output stream the (primary) names and descriptions of the terminal types available to the terminfo library. Each directory is scanned; if none are given, toe scans the default terminfo directory.

OPTIONS

The -h option can be helpful to observe where toe is looking for terminal descriptions. Other options support maintainers of terminfo terminal descriptions.

-a

lists entries from all terminal database directories that terminfo would search, instead of only the first that it finds.

If -s is also given, toe additionally reports, like conflict (1), which entries correspond 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.

	-h		writes a heading naming each directory as it is accessed.
	-s		sorts the output by the entry names.
	-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.
	-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.
	-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 (1). If ncurses is built without tracing support, n is ignored.

-V

reports the version of ncurses associated with this program and exits with a successful status.

FILES

/etc/terminfo

compiled terminal description database

PORTABILITY

toe is not provided by other implementations. There is no applicable X/Open or POSIX standard for it.

HISTORY

toe 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:

	•		tic ,
	•		tac (now tack ),
	•		toe .

EXAMPLES

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.

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Use the -a and -s options together to show where each terminal description was found.

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