Top "Terminfo" questions

Terminfo is a database of terminal capabilities use by applications that require information about the terminal's features.

Using the "alternate screen" in a bash script

The alternate screen is used by many "user-interactive" terminal applications like vim, htop, screen, alsamixer, less, ... It is like a …

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How do I determine if a terminal is color-capable?

I would like to change a program to automatically detect whether a terminal is color-capable or not, so when I …

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