I did quote early on in this thread that some terminals do not respond correctly to some terminal escape codes. Some of those escape codes will not work at all.
So in the first part the outside parentheses create an array in advanced shells like bash so therefore longhand:
As for the second 'printf' line, changing the values 24 and 80 to say 30 and 120 will expand the terminal size on certain terminals, (xterm as an exmaple), to that size for the duration of that terminal session. Of course calling it again with 24 and 80 restores it back to the original.
IF and a big if, it doesn't work then many of those terminal commands in the URLs won't work either.
Array... right. I wasn't thinking straight. Was early in the morning then.
Yes, probably quite a few of these escape codes won't work everywhere. Fortunately I don't need to resize the terminal. All I want is to keep the cursor in place until an acceptable answer arrives.
What about those code in man console_codes? Can't those be used to program in a reasonably safe / portable way in Bash?
I want to get the screen width and cursor positions.
When I used curses, all the screen content was cleared.
So Can I use curses to get the screen size without clearing anything in the window?
Or is there any other alternative???
I can use only C or C++. (0 Replies)
Hi,
Pleae help me on this. Normally, when we say read username, the cursor will come in the first position of next line, but I want the output of the below
Normal usage
-------------
please enter username:
_
I want like the below
----------------------
please enter username:
... (2 Replies)
Hi to all!
I'm a teacher of maths and physics in an italian high school in Milan, Italy.
I need a simple program that read the position of mouse cursor in function of time and write the coordinates in a text file. The time resolution have to be something like 1/10 sec or better (I have to know... (2 Replies)
hi all,
am trying to modify a ksh script to group server names together depending on the cluster they sit in. currently the script does a
find . -name '*.pid'
to find all running servers and prints out their pids and names.
current output looks something like this :
serverA ... (1 Reply)
I need to get the cursor position, and put it inside a variable. Problem is, i don't have the tput command, or ncurses.
Apparently I was supposed to try the following:
echo -e '\E
But I don't get a value or anything. Please help. (3 Replies)
Hi there.
It's easier to explain this with a pseudo code, I hope this makes sense:
var1=hello
echo $var1
some kind of loop
echo loop counter
done
How do I hold the cursor position immediately behind the last output so I'd get something like:
hello123456789
DOS used to use ","... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: MuntyScrunt
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
resize
resize(1X)resize(1X)NAME
resize - set TERMCAP and terminal settings to current xterm window size
SYNOPSIS
resize [-u] [-c] [-s[row col]]
OPTIONS
The following options may be used with resize: This option indicates that Bourne shell commands should be generated even if the user's cur-
rent shell is not /bin/sh. This option indicates that C shell commands should be generated even if the user's current shell is not
/bin/csh. This option indicates that Sun console escape sequences will be used instead of the special xterm escape code. If rows and col-
umns are given, resize will ask the xterm to resize itself. However, the window manager may choose to disallow the change.
DESCRIPTION
The resize command prints a shell command for setting the TERM and TERMCAP environment variables to indicate the current size of xterm win-
dow from which the command is run. For this output to take effect, resize must either be evaluated as part of the command line (usually
done with a shell alias or function) or else redirected to a file which can then be read in. From the C shell (usually known as /bin/csh),
the following alias could be defined in the user's
% alias rs 'set noglob; eval `resize`'
After resizing the window, the user would type: % rs
Users of versions of the Bourne shell (usually known as /bin/sh) that do not have command functions will need to send the output to a tem-
porary file and the read it back in with the "." command:
$ resize > /tmp/out
$ . /tmp/out
FILES
for the base termcap entry to modify. user's alias for the command.
BUGS
The -u or -c must appear to the left of -s if both are specified.
SEE ALSO csh(1), tset(1), xterm(1X)AUTHORS
Mark Vandevoorde (MIT-Athena), Edward Moy (Berkeley)
Copyright (c) 1984, 1985 by X Consortium
See X(1X) for a complete copyright notice.
resize(1X)