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Name

resize - utility to set TERM and terminal settings to current window size

Synopsis

resize [-u|-c] [-s [row col] ]

Description

resize outputs a shell command for setting the TERM environment variable to indicate the current size of the xterm(1) window from which the command is run. For this output to take effect, resize must either be evaluated as part of the command line (usually done with a shell alias or function) or else redirected to a file which can then be read.

Options

The following options may be used with resize:
-u
This option indicates that Bourne shell commands should be generated even if the user’s current shell isn’t /bin/sh.
-c
This option indicates that C shell commands should be generated even if the user’s current shell isn’t /bin/csh.
-s [row col]
This option indicates that that Sun console escape sequences will be used instead of the special xterm escape code. If row and col are given, resize will ask the xterm to resize itself. However, the window manager may choose to disallow the change.

Examples

From the C shell (usually known as /bin/csh), the following alias could be defined in the user’s .cshrc: 


       example%  alias rs ’set noglob; ‘eval resize‘’

After resizing the window, the user would type: 


       example%  rs

Users of versions of the Bourne shell (usually known as /bin/sh) that don’t have command functions will need to send the output to a temporary file and the read it back in with the ‘‘.’’ command: 


        $  resize >/tmp/out
        $  . /tmp/out

Files

/usr/share/lib/termcap
/usr/share/lib/terminfo/?/*
~/.cshrc

See Also

csh(1) , tset(1B) , xterm(1)

Authors

Mark Vandevoorde (MIT-Athena), Edward Moy (Berkeley)
Copyright (c) 1984, 1985 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
See X11(7) for a complete copyright notice.

Bugs

The -u or -c must appear to the left of -s if both are specified.

There should be some global notion of display size; terminfo needs to be rethought in the context of window systems. (Fixed in 4.3BSD, and Ultrix-32 1.2)

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