toe

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list table of entries of terminfo terminal types

User commands 7 optionsncurses-bin 6.5+20250216-2

toe [-ahs] [-v [n]] [directory ...] toe [-u|-U] file toe -V

Options

-a

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

-h

writes a heading naming each directory as it is accessed.

-s

sorts the output by the entry names.

-ufile

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.

-Ufile

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.

-vn

reports verbose status information to the standard error stream, showing toe's progress.

-V

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

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.

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.

xterm-color	generic color xterm
xterm-xfree86	xterm terminal emulator (XFree86)
xterm-vt220	xterm emulating vt220
xterm-256color	xterm with 256 colors
xterm-r6	xterm X11R6 version
xterm-r5	xterm R5 version
xterm-mono	monochrome xterm
xterm	xterm terminal emulator (X Window System)
vt220	dec vt220
vt102	dec vt102
vt100	dec vt100 (w/advanced video)
vt52	dec vt52
...

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

--> /etc/terminfo

----> /lib/terminfo

------> /usr/share/terminfo

--*---:	vt100	dec vt100 (w/advanced video)
--*---:	vt102	dec vt102
--*---:	vt220	dec vt220
--*---:	vt52	dec vt52
--*---:	xterm	xterm terminal emulator (X Window System)
--*---:	xterm-256color	xterm with 256 colors
--*---:	xterm-color	generic color xterm
--*---:	xterm-mono	monochrome xterm
--*---:	xterm-r5	xterm R5 version
--*---:	xterm-r6	xterm X11R6 version
--*---:	xterm-vt220	xterm emulating vt220
--*---:	xterm-xfree86	xterm terminal emulator (XFree86)
...