Re^2: bulletproof way of finding size of terminal?

Aha -- interesting, thanks! The one thing that's a drag is that the ioctl method doesn't seem to work when you're ssh'd in (even though -T STDOUT is true). Other than that, it's exactly what I need.

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Re^3: bulletproof way of finding size of terminal? by Joost (Canon) on Aug 31, 2007 at 23:09 UTC
Hmmm... it works for me using OpenSSH_4.6p1 Debian-5, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007 on Linux. I guess it will also depend on your ssh client/terminal emulator, and not just on the OS. (I should consult my UNIX bible) "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^4: bulletproof way of finding size of terminal? by bcrowell2 (Friar) on Sep 01, 2007 at 00:55 UTC
Interesting. I was actually trying to do it while ssh'd into a freebsd box, so maybe it just doesn't work on bsd?	[reply]