toe(1M) User commands toe(1M) 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 descrip- tions of the terminal types available to the terminfo library. Each direc- tory is scanned; if none are given, toe scans the default terminfo direc- tory. OPTIONS The -h option can be helpful to observe where toe is looking for terminal descriptions. Other options support maintainers of terminfo terminal de- scriptions. -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" (ter- minfo) 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 capabili- ties, 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. FILES /usr/share/misc/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) ... SEE ALSO captoinfo(1M), infocmp(1M), infotocap(1M), tic(1M), curses(3X), terminfo(5) ncurses 6.5 2025-11-11 toe(1M)
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