Topics to Study

• Parameterized Strings
• ncurses

• X/Open Curses

• grep(1), egrep, fgrep, rgrep - print lines that match patterns

  • See ~/notes/linux/tools/grep.md

Stuff to check out that's not installed:

• nvi(1)
• mutt(1)
• sleuthkit
• plocate

For C programming

PRINTF(3)

Control Sequence	Produces
\n	newline
\l	line-feed
\r	return
\t	tab
\b	backspace
\f	form-feed
\s	space
\E and \e	escape character
^x	control-x (x=char)

Core Terminal Info (TermInfo) Manipulation

• clear(1) - - clear the terminal screen
• tabs(1) - set tabs on a terminal
• terminfo(5) - terminal capability database
• tic(1) - the terminfo entry-description compiler
• term(5) - format of compiled term file.
• infocmp(1) - compare or print out terminfo descriptions
• user_caps(5) - user-defined terminfo capabilities