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- Omni repeated this.
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@climagic Honestly, I don't even use that on the console because framebuffer.
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@kamikaze What does that do? :P
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@omni The $ symbolizes line delimiters. „apply tput co li“ is a command. It executes „tput co; tput li“. The following lines are the output, number of terminal columns and number of terminal lines. „true“ is just a dummy command that returns 0 like „:“.
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@kamikaze I do not have an "apply" command, what package does it come from?
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@toksyuryel The manpage states it originates from 4.2BSD. One of the original Berkley releases from 1983 and famous for introducing the BSD TCP/IP stack.
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@kamikaze Well that's hardly helpful. Though it suggests that it may simply not exist on Linux but I find that hard to believe. Wikipedia seems to lack an article on it as well, which is odd since they usually have articles about historical programs like that.
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@toksyuryel I wasn't aware that there is no GNU version of that. They probably have a different command that does something similar with different syntax. You could also do something like this: „for arg in co li; do tput $arg; done“. Note that tput is the important command. Apply is just a hack. tput appeared in 4.4 BSD and is also supplied with ncurses.
