Based on Less Colors For Man Pages by Gen2ly, here is my man page and how to do it: Preview This is a shell, not a web page ! How to (optional) I’m using Tomorrow theme for Konsole/Yakuake ; Edit your ~/.bashrc ~/.zshrc, etc. to add : # Colored man pages: http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/less-colors-for-man-pages/ # Less Colors … Read more
A friend pointed me towards tput(1), and I cooked up this solution: #!/bin/sh # ack-wrapper – use tput to try and detect whether the terminal is # color-capable, and call ack-grep accordingly. OPTION=’–nocolor’ COLORS=$(tput colors 2> /dev/null) if [ $? = 0 ] && [ $COLORS -gt 2 ]; then OPTION=” fi exec ack-grep $OPTION … Read more
With character terminal applications, there are always two ends in the communication, which must agree on how to interpret the control characters. Usually both sides are capable of using a variety of codings described in termcap/terminfo database. On the Unix server-side you can define the coding by setting the TERM environmental variable, or by using … Read more
You can switch to the alternate screen using this command: $ tput smcup And back with: $ tput rmcup These commands just output the appropriate escape sequences for your terminal. If it is an XTERM they will be equivalent to the (more known but less elegant or portable): $ echo -e “\e[?1049h” And: $ echo … Read more