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toe(1)                                 General Commands Manual                                toe(1)



NAME
       toe - table of (terminfo) entries

SYNOPSIS
       toe [-v[n]] [-ahsuUV] file...

DESCRIPTION
       With  no  options,  toe lists all available terminal types by primary name with descriptions.
       File arguments specify the directories to be scanned; if no such arguments  are  given,  your
       default terminfo directory is scanned.  If you also specify the -h option, a directory header
       will be issued as each directory is entered.

       There are other options intended for use by terminfo file maintainers:

       -a     report on all of the terminal databases which ncurses would search, rather  than  only
              the first one that it finds.

              If  the  -s is also given, toe adds a column to the report, showing (like conflict(1))
              which entries which belong to a given terminal database.  An "*" marks  entries  which
              differ, and "+" marks equivalent entries.

              Without the -s option, toe does not attempt to merge duplicates in its report

       -s     sort the output by the entry names.

       -u file
              says  to write a report to the standard output, listing dependencies in the given ter‐
              minfo/termcap source file.  The report condenses the “use” relation:  each  line  con‐
              sists  of  the  primary  name  of  a terminal that has use capabilities, followed by a
              colon, followed by the whitespace-separated primary names of all terminals which occur
              in those use capabilities, followed by a newline

       -U file
              says  to  write  a  report to the standard output, listing reverse dependencies in the
              given terminfo/termcap source file.  The report reverses the “use” relation: each line
              consists  of  the primary name of a terminal that occurs in use capabilities, followed
              by a colon, followed by the whitespace-separated primary names of all terminals  which
              depend on it, followed by a newline.

       -vn    specifies that (verbose) output be written to standard error, showing toe's progress.

              The  optional  parameter  n  is  a number from 1 to 10, interpreted as for tic(1).  If
              ncurses is built without tracing support, the optional parameter is ignored.

       -V     reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and exits.

EXAMPLES
       Without sorting, the -a option reports all of the names found in all of  the  terminal  data‐
       bases found by the TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS environment variables:

           MtxOrb162      16x2 Matrix Orbital LCD display
           MtxOrb204      20x4 Matrix Orbital LCD display
           MtxOrb         Generic Matrix Orbital LCD display
           qvt101+        qume qvt 101 PLUS product
           qvt119+-25     QVT 119 PLUS with 25 data lines
           qansi-g        QNX ANSI
           qvt103         qume qvt 103
           qnxw           QNX4 windows
           qansi-w        QNX ansi for windows
           qnxm           QNX4 with mouse events
           qvt203-25-w    QVT 203 PLUS with 25 by 132 columns
           qansi-t        QNX ansi without console writes
           . . .

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

           --> /usr/local/ncurses/share/terminfo
           ----> /usr/share/terminfo
           *-+-:     9term          Plan9 terminal emulator for X
           *---:     Eterm          Eterm with xterm-style color support (X Window System)
           *-*-:     Eterm-256color Eterm with xterm 256-colors
           *-*-:     Eterm-88color  Eterm with 88 colors
           *-+-:     MtxOrb         Generic Matrix Orbital LCD display
           *-+-:     MtxOrb162      16x2 Matrix Orbital LCD display
           *-+-:     MtxOrb204      20x4 Matrix Orbital LCD display
           *-*-:     NCR260VT300WPP NCR 2900_260 vt300 wide mode pc+  kybd
           *-+-:     aaa            ann arbor ambassador/30 lines
           *-+-:     aaa+dec        ann arbor ambassador in dec vt100 mode
           *-+-:     aaa+rv         ann arbor ambassador in reverse video
           . . .

FILES
       /etc/terminfo/?/*
            Compiled terminal description database.

HISTORY
       This  utility is not provided by other implementations.  There is no relevant X/Open or POSIX
       standard for toe.

       The program name refers to a developer's pun:

       •   tic,

       •   tac (now tack),

       •   toe.

       It replaced a -T option which was briefly supported by the ncurses infocmp utility in 1995.

       The -a and -s options were added to toe several years later (2006 and 2011, respectively).

SEE ALSO
       captoinfo(1), infocmp(1), infotocap(1), tic(1), ncurses(3NCURSES), terminfo(5).

       This describes ncurses version 6.3 (patch 20211021).



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