z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

If arg is baud, cols, lines, meta or tabs, echotc prints the value of that capability
(either yes or no, which indicates that the terminal does or does not have that
capability). You might use this to make the output from a shell script less verbose
on slow terminals, or limit command output to the number of lines on the screen:
> set history=`echotc lines`
> @ history--
Termcap strings may contain wildcards which will not echo correctly. One should
use double quotes when setting a shell variable to a terminal capability string, as in
the following example that places the date in the status line:
> set standout=`echotc sò
> set end_standout=`echotc sè
> echo -n "$standout"; date; echo -n "$end_standout"
Mon Oct 25 10:06:48 EDT 1999
>
Note: The date, as indicated, is printed out in standard output.
The infocmp command can be used to print the current terminal description in
termcap format (instead of terminfo format).
Options
-s Nonexistent capabilities return the empty string instead of causing an error.
-v Messages are verbose.
Related information
tcsh
filetest built-in command for tcsh: Apply the op file inquiry operator to
a file
Format
filetest -op file –
Description
filetest applies op (which is a file inquiry operator) to each file and returns the
results as a space-separated list. For more information on file inquiry operators, see
“File inquiry operators” on page 648.
Examples
1. To use the filetest command to retrieve the seclabel:
> filetest -m myfile
SYSLOW
2. To test for a specific seclabel using an if statement:
if ( -m myfile == "SYSLOW" ) then
echo "myfile has seclabel of SYSLOW"
endif
Related information
tcsh
glob built-in command for tcsh: Write each word to standard output
Format
glob wordlist
tcsh: echotc
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