tput

Tput was provided in UNIX System V in the early 1980s. A clone of the AT&T tput was submitted to volume 7 of the mod.sources newsgroup (later comp.sources.unix) in September 1986.{{cite web

|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/embed/#!topic/mod.sources/G1VegA0Aa_w

|title=Public-domain tput(1) program

|first=Badri

|last=Lokanathan

|date=1986-08-28

|access-date=2008-04-22

}}{{cite web

|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/embed/#!topic/mod.sources/Eq3EPGxuYrI

|title=Public-domain TPUT (corrected implementation)

|first=Badri

|last=Lokanathan

|date=1986-09-19

|access-date=2008-04-22

}} In contrast to the System V program, the clone used termcap rather than terminfo. It accepted command-line parameters for the cm (cursor addressing) capability, and recognized terminfo capability names.

System V Release 3 provided an improved version which combined the different initialization capabilities as a new option init, and the reset capabilities as reset, thereby simplifying use of tput for initializing or reinitializing the terminal.{{Cite book

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GsUMLqtYI1UC&q=tput

|title=Termcap and terminfo

|last1=Strang

|first1=John

|last2=Mui

|first2=Linda

|last3=O'Reilly

|first3=Tim

|publisher=O'Reilly

|year=1988

|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=GsUMLqtYI1UC&pg=PA56 56–57]

|isbn=0-937175-22-6

}} System V Release 3.2 added several printer-specific capabilities to the terminfo database, such as swidm (enter_doublewide_mode) which tput could use. It also added capabilities for color.

System V Release 4 defined additional terminfo capabilities including standardized ANSI color capabilities setaf and setab, which could be used by tput.

BSD platforms provided a different implementation of tput in 4.3BSD-Reno (June 1990).{{cite web

|url=http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/4bsd

|title=3BSD/4BSD versions

|date=2000-06-25

|publisher=The Unix Heritage Society

|access-date=2008-04-20

}} It used termcap, recognizing only termcap capability names, and did not accept command-line parameters for cursor-addressing. FreeBSD used this in 1994, improving it by accepting one or two numeric command-line parameters.{{cite web

|url=http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/tput/tput.c

|title=CVS log for src/usr.bin/tput/tput.c

|date=May 27, 1994

}}

Ross Ridge's mytinfo package in 1992{{cite newsgroup

|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sources.unix/tC8cAf6ZHjM

|author=Ross Ridge

|title=mytinfo - a replacement for terminfo and termcap

|newsgroup=comp.sources.unix

|date=December 27, 1992

}} provided a tput which accepted either termcap or terminfo capability names. Like the Reno implementation, it did not pass command-line arguments to parameterized capabilities. ncurses incorporated the mytinfo code in June 1995. The initial version added a -S option, and interpreted command-line parameters as described in the System V Release 4 documentation.

The Open Group defines one option (-T, to specify the terminal type) and three keywords (init, clear and reset).

Most implementations accept the name of a terminal capability together with any parameters that may be needed for that.

However, some implementations expect a termcap name, while others expect a terminfo name.

All System V Release 4 implementations, as well as those which are designed to be compatible, also recognize a -S option (to tell tput to read data from the standard input), and an additional keyword longname. They also accept command-line parameters, usually distinguishing numeric from string parameters by the form of the parameter, checking for all-numeric characters. That makes it impossible for example to set a function-key label to a string of digits. Using a different approach, ncurses determines the expected type of the parameters with a table of the terminfo capabilities which use string parameters, eliminating the ambiguity.

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{{Wikibooks|Guide to Unix|Commands}}

• {{man|cu|tput|SUS}}
• {{man|1|tput|Linux}}
• [http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/tput.1.html tput(1) manual page for ncurses]
• [http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_aix_61/com.ibm.aix.cmds5/tput.htm AIX]
• {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513061455/http://www.tenacitymedia.com/cgi-bin/bsdi-man?proto=1.1&query=tput&msection=1&apropos=0 |date=May 13, 2013 |title=BSDI }}
• [http://uw714doc.sco.com/en/man/html.1/tput.1.html SCO]
• {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304022957/http://h20565.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c02273396 |date=Mar 4, 2016 |title=HPUX }}
• [http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname=/usr/share/catman/u_man/cat1/tput.z SGI]
• [http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1461/tput-1.html Sun]
• {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207000157/http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51_HTML/MAN/MAN1/0386____.HTM |date=February 7, 2012 |title=Tru64 }}

• [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x405.html Colours and Cursor Movement With tput in Bash Prompt HOWTO]
• [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-learningtput/?S_TACT=105AGY06& Discover tput on IBM DeveloperWorks]

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