Linux "toe" Command Line Options and Examples
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With no options, toe lists all available terminal types by primary name with descriptions. File arguments specify the directories to be scanned; if no such arguments are given, your default terminfo directory is scanned. If you also specify the -h option, a directory header will be issued as each directory is entered.


Usage:

toe [-v[n]] [-ahsuUV] file...






Command Line Options:

-s
sort the output by the entry names.
toe -s ...
-u
says to write a report to the standard output, listing dependencies in the given terminfo/termcapsource file. The report condenses the “use” relation: each line consists of the primary name of a ter‐minal that has use capabilities, followed by a colon, followed by the whitespace-separated primarynames of all terminals which occur in those use capabilities, followed by a newline
toe -u ...
-U
says to write a report to the standard output, listing reverse dependencies in the given terminfo/term‐cap source file. The report reverses the “use” relation: each line consists of the primary name of aterminal that occurs in use capabilities, followed by a colon, followed by the whitespace-separatedprimary names of all terminals which depend on it, followed by a newline.
toe -U ...
-vn
The optional parameter n is a number from 1 to 10, interpreted as for tic(1). If ncurses is builtwithout tracing support, the optional parameter is ignored.
toe -vn ...
-V
FILES/etc/terminfo/?/*Compiled terminal description database.
toe -V ...