How to get terminal width?
Mark Jackson
mjackson at wc.eso.mc.xerox.com
Thu May 4 23:00:49 EDT 2000
Jeff Bauer <jbauer at rubic.com> writes:
> Donn Cave wrote:
> > Quoth newsbunny at noether.freeserve.co.uk (Martin P Holland):
> > | stty size
> > |
> > | just gives the rows and columns here (linux) but may be this is
> > | not standard.
> >
> > It looks pretty good to me! Ultrix 4.2, Digital UNIX 4.0, AIX 4.2,
> > HP/UX 10.20, FreeBSD 4.0, 2 versions of Linux and BeOS 4.5 pass on
> > this one, and that's all I can dig up to try, so it looks to me like
> > the best bet so far. Easiest to handle in Python, too.
>
> Donn/Martin:
>
> It fails on Solaris 2.6 (and probably other versions of Solaris):
>
> $ stty size
> unknown mode: size
Depends on the path. Fails for /usr/bin/stty (probably the most common
default); works for /usr/ucb/stty.
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