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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Chapter 3: Linux Commands
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environment variable, or the default terminal type. See also the
reset command.
Options
-echar
Set the erase character to char.
-ichar
Set the interrupt character to char.
-I Do not send terminal or tab initialization strings to the
terminal.
-kchar
Set line-kill character to char.
-m arg
Specify a mapping from a port type to a terminal, where arg
looks like this:
[port type][operator][baud rate][:]terminal_type
operator can be any combination of < (less than), > (greater
than), @ (equal), and ! (not). The terminal type is a string (e.g.,
vt100 or xterm).
-q Print the terminal type on standard output but do not initialize
the terminal.
-Q Don’t display values for the erase, interrupt, and line kill
characters.
-r Print the terminal type to standard error.
-s Print the shell commands that initialize the TERM environ-
ment variable on standard output.
-V Print the version of ncurses used for this program and exit.
tsort
tsort [option] [file]
Perform a topological sort on partially ordered strings in the speci-
fied file. Multiple strings on a line are separated by spaces, where
each line indicates a partial ordering. The fully ordered results are
written to standard output. See the tsort info page for an example
of the use of tsort for sorting lists of functions into the
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