NAME¶

stty - Print or change terminal characteristics.

SYNOPSIS¶

stty [-a|--all] [-g|--save] [-F|--file] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [settings]

DESCRIPTION¶

Print or change terminal characteristics.

OPTIONS¶

-a, --all

print all current settings in human-readable form

-g, --save

print all current settings in a stty-readable form

-F, --file <DEVICE>

open and use the specified DEVICE instead of stdin

-h, --help

Print help

-V, --version

Print version

[settings]

settings to change

VERSION¶

v(uutils coreutils) 0.8.0

EXAMPLES¶

Display current terminal size:

stty size

Display all settings for the current terminal:

stty [-a|--all]

Set the number of rows or columns:

stty rows|cols count

Get the actual transfer speed of a device:

stty [-F|--file] path/to/device_file speed

Reset all modes to reasonable values for the current terminal:

stty sane

Switch between raw and normal mode:

stty raw|cooked

Turn character echoing off or on:

stty -echo|echo

Display help:

stty --help

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.