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RESIZEWIN(1)		    General Commands Manual		  RESIZEWIN(1)

NAME
       resizewin -- update terminal size

SYNOPSIS
       resizewin [-z]

DESCRIPTION
       The  resizewin  utility	queries	 the terminal emulator for the current
       window size and	updates	 the  size  known  to  the  kernel  using  the
       TIOCSWINSZ ioctl.

       The following options are available:

       -z  Do  nothing	unless the current kernel terminal size	is zero.  This
	   is useful when run from a user's profile (shell  startup)  scripts:
	   querying the	window size is required	for serial lines, but not when
	   logging  in	over  the network, as protocols	like TELNET or SSH al-
	   ready handle	the terminal size by themselves.

       After a terminal	window has been	resized, running resizewin updates the
       kernel's	window size to match the new size.

       resizewin is functionally similar to resize(1), which is	 part  of  the
       xterm(1)	(ports/x11/xterm) distribution.	 However, resizewin only works
       with  VT100/ANSI-compatible terminals and does not emit commands	to set
       environment variables.

       The terminal is assumed to be VT100/ANSI	 compatible.   The  VT100/ANSI
       escape  sequences  are supported	by virtually all modern	terminals, in-
       cluding xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal, iTerm, Terminal.app, and	PuTTY.

SEE ALSO
       stty(1),	tty(4)

HISTORY
       The resizewin command first appeared in FreeBSD 11.0.

FreeBSD	13.2			  May 9, 2017			  RESIZEWIN(1)

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