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 toe - list table of entries of terminfo terminal types

SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS FILES PORTABILITY HISTORY EXAMPLES SEE ALSO

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

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 is scanned; if none are given,  toe scans 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.

-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 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(1M). 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.

/usr/share/misc/terminfo	compiled terminal description database

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

 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.

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)