On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:40:07AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> retitle 502260 ITP: termutils -- Portable Terminal Control From Scripts
> owner 502260 Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
> thanks
>
> Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> > Debian has no command called "tabs" at all. GNU Termutils has it. It
> > also has a command called "tput", but it is already in a package called
> > ncurses-bin.
>
> Thanks, I will take care of this.
I recall seeing that one, but didn't think it was worth pursuing.
(the tput isn't...)
fwiw, here's the Solaris manpage
User Commands tabs(1)
NAME
tabs - set tabs on a terminal
SYNOPSIS
tabs [ -n | --file [ [ -code ] | -a | -a2 | -c | -c2 |
-c3 | -f | -p | -s | -u ] ] [ +m [ n ] ] [ -T type
]
tabs [ -T type ] [ + m [ n ] ] n1 [ , n2 , ... ]
DESCRIPTION
tabs sets the tab stops on the user's terminal according to
a tab specification, after clearing any previous settings.
The user's terminal must have remotely settable hardware
tabs.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported. If a given flag occurs
more than once, the last value given takes effect:
-T type
tabs needs to know the type of terminal in order to
set tabs and margins. type is a name listed in
term(5). If no -T flag is supplied, tabs uses the
value of the environment variable TERM. If the value
of TERM is NULL or TERM is not defined in the environ-
ment (see environ(5)), tabs uses ansi+tabs as the ter-
minal type to provide a sequence that will work for
many terminals.
+m[n] The margin argument may be used for some terminals. It
causes all tabs to be moved over n columns by making
column n+1 the left margin. If +m is given without a
value of n, the value assumed is 10. For a TermiNet,
the first value in the tab list should be 1, or the
margin will move even further to the right. The normal
(leftmost) margin on most terminals is obtained by
+m0. The margin for most terminals is reset only when
the +m flag is given explicitly.
Tab Specification
Four types of tab specification are accepted. They are
described below: canned, repetitive (-n), arbitrary
(n1,n2,...), and file (-file).
If no tab specification is given, the default value is -8,
that is, UNIX system ``standard'' tabs. The lowest column
number is 1. Note: For tabs, column 1 always refers to the
leftmost column on a terminal, even one whose column markers
begin at 0, for example, the DASI 300, DASI 300s, and DASI
450.
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Canned -code
Use one of the codes listed below to select a canned set of
tabs. If more than one code is specified, the last code
option will be used. The legal codes and their meanings are
as follows:
-a 1,10,16,36,72 Assembler, IBM S/370, first format
-a2 1,10,16,40,72
Assembler, IBM S/370, second format
-c 1,8,12,16,20,55
COBOL, normal format
-c2 1,6,10,14,49
COBOL compact format (columns 1-6 omitted). Using this
code, the first typed character corresponds to card
column 7, one space gets you to column 8, and a tab
reaches column 12. Files using this tab setup should
include a format specification as follows (see
fspec(4)):
<:t-c2 m6 s66 d:>
-c3 1,6,10,14,18,22,26,30,34,38,42,46,50,54,58,62,67
COBOL compact format (columns 1-6 omitted), with more
tabs than -c2. This is the recommended format for
COBOL. The appropriate format specification is (see
fspec(4)):
<:t-c3 m6 s66 d:>
-f 1,7,11,15,19,23
FORTRAN
-p 1,5,9,13,17,21,25,29,33,37,41,45,49,53,57,61
PL/I
-s 1,10,55
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SNOBOL
-u 1,12,20,44
UNIVAC 1100 Assembler
Repetitive
-n A repetitive specification requests tabs at columns
1+n, 1+2*n, etc., where n is a single-digit decimal
number. Of particular importance is the value 8: this
represents the UNIX system ``standard'' tab setting,
and is the most likely tab setting to be found at a
terminal. When -0 is used, the tab stops are cleared
and no new ones are set.
Arbitrary
See OPERANDS.
File
-file If the name of a file is given, tabs reads the first
line of the file, searching for a format specification
(see fspec(4)). If it finds one there, it sets the tab
stops according to it, otherwise it sets them as -8.
This type of specification may be used to make sure
that a tabbed file is printed with correct tab set-
tings, and would be used with the pr command:
example% tabs - file; pr file
Tab and margin setting is performed via the standard output.
OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
n1[,n2,...]
The arbitrary format consists of tab-stop values
separated by commas or spaces. The tab-stop
values must be positive decimal integers in
ascending order. Up to 40 numbers are allowed. If
any number (except the first one) is preceded by
a plus sign, it is taken as an increment to be
added to the previous value. Thus, the formats
1,10,20,30, and 1,10,+10,+10 are considered
identical.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Using the tabs Command
The following command is an example using -code ( canned
specification) to set tabs to the settings required by the
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IBM assembler: columns 1, 10, 16, 36, 72:
example% tabs -a
The next command is an example of using -n (repetitive
specification), where n is 8, causes tabs to be set every
eighth position: 1+(1*8), 1+(2*8), ... which evaluate to
columns 9, 17, ...:
example% tabs -8
This command uses n1,n2,... (arbitrary specification) to set
tabs at columns 1, 8, and 36:
example% tabs 1,8,36
The last command is an example of using -file (file specifi-
cation) to indicate that tabs should be set according to the
first line of $HOME/fspec.list/att4425 (see fspec(4)).
example% tabs -$HOME/fspec.list/att4425
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment
variables that affect the execution of tabs: LC_CTYPE,
LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
TERM Determine the terminal type. If this variable is
unset or null, and if the -T option is not specified,
terminal type ansi+tabs will be used.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
____________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Availability | SUNWcsu |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| CSI | enabled |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
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SEE ALSO
expand(1), newform(1), pr(1), stty(1), tput(1), fspec(4),
terminfo(4), attributes(5), environ(5), term(5)
NOTES
There is no consistency among different terminals regarding
ways of clearing tabs and setting the left margin.
tabs clears only 20 tabs (on terminals requiring a long
sequence), but is willing to set 64.
The tabspec used with the tabs command is different from the
one used with the newform command. For example, tabs -8 sets
every eighth position; whereas newform -i-8 indicates that
tabs are set every eighth position.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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