The script what greps terminfo entries and print the related information. It's useful to find a key corresponding to an unknown character sequence.

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Reverse terminfo entry lookup

What's this

This script searches terminfo entries and print its information.

Technically, it does the same as the 1-liner below does.

infocmp -1x | grep 'OA' \
  | sed 's/^ *//' | tee /dev/tty | sed 's/=.*$//' \
  | xargs -l sh -c 'man 5 terminfo | grep -F "  $0  "'

terminfo_lookup.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Reverse terminfo Lookup Command.
#
# Author: Hiroshi Yamamoto ([email protected])
# Licennse: WTFPL 2.0 (Do Whate[omitted]))

param_code=$1
param_term=$2

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 [part of a terminfo entry] [termname]"
  echo "Example:"
  echo "        $0 kent"
  echo "        $0 OA xterm"
  echo "        $0 kcuu1 putty"
  echo "        $0 \\\\EA rxvt"
  echo "        $0 kf1= xterm"
  exit 1
fi

echo "Searching for \"$param_code\"."
if [ -z "$2" ]; then
  echo "TERM value is \"$TERM (default)\"."
else
  echo "TERM value is \"$param_term\"."
fi

entries=`infocmp -1x $param_term \
  | grep '=' | grep -F $param_code \
  | sed 's/=^ *//' | sed 's/,$//'`

if [ -z "$entries" ]; then
  echo "No entry found"
  exit 1
fi

for entry in $entries
do
 echo ---
 echo "entry :" $entry

 code=`echo $entry | sed 's/=.*$//'`
 # echo "code  :" $code

 hint=`man 5 terminfo 2> /dev/null | grep "  $code  " `
 echo "hint  :" $hint
done