Links

• Resetting the terminal
• Terminfo and Termcap Commands
• terminfo manpage
• How can one set a terminal's title with the 'tput' command?
• Unix shell initialization
• Creating temporary files
• Colors, etc.
  • Terminal codes (ANSI/VT100) introduction
• ANSI and other control codes
  • Wikipedia: ANSI escape code
  • github: ANSI demo/testing code – blob/…/ansi.py
  • Remove ANSI escapes / control characters
    • stackexchange: Removing color codes from output
    • stackexchange: Removing control chars from output
  • Libraries
    • mgutz/ansi
      • Small, fast library to create ANSI colored strings and codes.
    • minikomi/ansipix (Image to ansiblocks)
    • asciimoo/drawille
    • unconed/TermKit

Tools

• Networking
  • iftop
  • nethogs?
  • more
  • Don't forget good old lsof

Cloning a termcap entry

# Copy an existing termcap entry for rxvt making it 256
# colors and stick it in ~/.terminfo
zsh -c "tic =(infocmp -I rxvt-unicode | sed 's/colors#88/colors#256/')"