NAME¶
resize - set environment and terminal settings to current xterm window size
SYNOPSIS¶
resize [
-u |
-c ] [
-s [
row col ] ]
DESCRIPTION¶
Resize prints a shell command for setting the appropriate environment
variables to indicate the current size of
xterm 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 in. From the C
shell (usually known as
/bin/csh), the following alias could be defined
in the user's
.cshrc:
% alias rs 'set noglob; eval `resize`'
After resizing the window, the user would type:
% 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 then read it back in with the “.” command:
$ resize > /tmp/out
$ . /tmp/out
Resize determines the user's current shell by first checking if
$SHELL is set, and using that. Otherwise it determines the user's shell
by looking in the password file. Generally Bourne-shell variants (including
ksh) do not modify
$SHELL, so it is possible for
resize
to be confused if one runs
resize from a Bourne shell spawned from a C
shell.
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 [rows columns]
- This option indicates that Sun console escape sequences
will be used instead of the VT100-style xterm escape codes. If
rows and columns are given, resize will ask the
xterm to resize itself. However, the window manager may choose to
disallow the change.
Note that the Sun console escape sequences are recognized by XFree86
xterm and by
dtterm. The
resize program may be installed
as
sunsize, which causes makes it assume the
-s option.
The
rows and
columns arguments must appear last; though they are
normally associated with the
-s option, they are parsed separately.
FILES¶
- /etc/termcap
- for the base termcap entry to modify.
- ~/.cshrc
- user's alias for the command.
ENVIRONMENT¶
- TERM
- set to "xterm" if not already set.
- TERMCAP
- variable set on systems using termcap
- COLUMNS, LINES
- variables set on systems using terminfo
SEE ALSO¶
csh(1),
tset(1),
xterm(1)
AUTHORS¶
Mark Vandevoorde (MIT-Athena), Edward Moy (Berkeley)
Copyright (c) 1984, 1985 by X Consortium
See
X(7) for a complete copyright notice.