Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:20:24 +0000 From: Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cursing the tput utility - the penguin strikes again Message-ID: <809607b3-4ffb-6a34-9715-870481c4db45@fjl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Y/ewkOQgK4K2K8Ne@mail.gmail.com> References: <974a81c2-a92d-7f94-5f96-869bddfe21f3@fjl.co.uk> <Y/ewkOQgK4K2K8Ne@mail.gmail.com>
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On 23/02/2023 18:29, Daniel Tameling wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 04:45:21PM +0000, Frank Leonhardt wrote: >> So there's a tput utility for controlling the terminal in BSD. It takes >> "attributes" and arguments and outputs whatever control codes are >> needed to >> make the terminal do what you need in a portable way (switch to bold, >> move >> the cursor, clear to EOL or whatever). It doesn't matter if you're >> using an >> VT52 terminal or xterm - tput does the translation. >> >> snip >> So my question is, assuming one wants one's scripts to be compatible with >> Linux, what's the best way of going about it? Is there some new >> platform-independent way of doing this I'm too old to know about, or >> do you >> really have to write shell scripts to cope with both by defining the >> code to >> use up front based on the output of uname? >> >> >> Did you try using the tput from devel/ncurses instead? I once ran into >> a similar problem and if I remember correctly that one works with the >> same options as on Linux because it's the one installed there. And it >> is frequently already installed as a dependency; the problem is just >> that the FreeBSD tput is earlier in PATH. Thanks - I didn't know about that, and it's good to know. It's not the solution I wanted as for compatibility I'm sticking with the base system. I think the "problem" is that BSD is using termcap definitions whereas Linux us using terminfo, which is logical as it's newer, but wrong! Regards, Frank.
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