stty(1posix)
NAME
stty --- set the options for a terminal
SYNOPSIS
stty [a|g] stty operand...
DESCRIPTION
The stty utility shall set or report on terminal I/O characteristics for the device that is its standard input. Without options or operands specified, it shall report the settings of certain characteristics, usually those that differ from implementation-defined defaults. Otherwise, it shall modify the terminal state according to the specified operands. Detailed information about the modes listed in the first five groups below are described in the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface. Operands in the Combination Modes group (see Combination Modes) are implemented using operands in the previous groups. Some combinations of operands are mutually-exclusive on some terminal types; the results of using such combinations are unspecified. Typical implementations of this utility require a communications line configured to use the termios interface defined in the System Interfaces volume of POSIX.12008. On systems where none of these lines are available, and on lines not currently configured to support the termios interface, some of the operands need not affect terminal characteristics.
OPTIONS
The stty utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines.
The following options shall be supported:
a Write to standard output all the current settings for the
terminal.
g Write to standard output all the current settings in an
unspecified form that can be used as arguments to another
invocation of the stty utility on the same system. The form
used shall not contain any characters that would require
quoting to avoid word expansion by the shell; see Section
2.6, Word Expansions.
OPERANDS
The following operands shall be supported to set the terminal
characteristics.
Control Modes
parenb (parenb)
Enable (disable) parity generation and detection. This
shall have the effect of setting (not setting) PARENB in
the termios c_cflag field, as defined in the Base
Definitions volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General
Terminal Interface.
parodd (parodd)
Select odd (even) parity. This shall have the effect of
setting (not setting) PARODD in the termios c_cflag field,
as defined in the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008,
Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
cs5 cs6 cs7 cs8
Select character size, if possible. This shall have the
effect of setting CS5, CS6, CS7, and CS8, respectively, in
the termios c_cflag field, as defined in the Base
Definitions volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General
Terminal Interface.
number Set terminal baud rate to the number given, if possible. If
the baud rate is set to zero, the modem control lines shall
no longer be asserted. This shall have the effect of
setting the input and output termios baud rate values as
defined in the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008,
Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
ispeed number
Set terminal input baud rate to the number given, if
possible. If the input baud rate is set to zero, the input
baud rate shall be specified by the value of the output
baud rate. This shall have the effect of setting the input
termios baud rate values as defined in the Base Definitions
volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal
Interface.
ospeed number
Set terminal output baud rate to the number given, if
possible. If the output baud rate is set to zero, the modem
control lines shall no longer be asserted. This shall have
the effect of setting the output termios baud rate values
as defined in the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008,
Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
hupcl (hupcl)
Stop asserting modem control lines (do not stop asserting
modem control lines) on last close. This shall have the
effect of setting (not setting) HUPCL in the termios
c_cflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
hup (hup) Equivalent to hupcl(hupcl).
cstopb (cstopb)
Use two (one) stop bits per character. This shall have the
effect of setting (not setting) CSTOPB in the termios
c_cflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
cread (cread)
Enable (disable) the receiver. This shall have the effect
of setting (not setting) CREAD in the termios c_cflag
field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
clocal (clocal)
Assume a line without (with) modem control. This shall have
the effect of setting (not setting) CLOCAL in the termios
c_cflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
It is unspecified whether stty shall report an error if an attempt to
set a Control Mode fails.
Input Modes
ignbrk (ignbrk)
Ignore (do not ignore) break on input. This shall have the
effect of setting (not setting) IGNBRK in the termios
c_iflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
brkint (brkint)
Signal (do not signal) INTR on break. This shall have the
effect of setting (not setting) BRKINT in the termios
c_iflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
ignpar (ignpar)
Ignore (do not ignore) bytes with parity errors. This shall
have the effect of setting (not setting) IGNPAR in the
termios c_iflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions
volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal
Interface.
parmrk (parmrk)
Mark (do not mark) parity errors. This shall have the
effect of setting (not setting) PARMRK in the termios
c_iflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
inpck (inpck)
Enable (disable) input parity checking. This shall have the
effect of setting (not setting) INPCK in the termios
c_iflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
istrip (istrip)
Strip (do not strip) input characters to seven bits. This
shall have the effect of setting (not setting) ISTRIP in
the termios c_iflag field, as defined in the Base
Definitions volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General
Terminal Interface.
inlcr (inlcr)
Map (do not map) NL to CR on input. This shall have the
effect of setting (not setting) INLCR in the termios
c_iflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
igncr (igncr)
Ignore (do not ignore) CR on input. This shall have the
effect of setting (not setting) IGNCR in the termios
c_iflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
icrnl (icrnl)
Map (do not map) CR to NL on input. This shall have the
effect of setting (not setting) ICRNL in the termios
c_iflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
ixon (ixon)
Enable (disable) START/STOP output control. Output from the
system is stopped when the system receives STOP and started
when the system receives START. This shall have the effect
of setting (not setting) IXON in the termios c_iflag field,
as defined in the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008,
Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
ixany (ixany)
Allow any character to restart output. This shall have the
effect of setting (not setting) IXANY in the termios
c_iflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
ixoff (ixoff)
Request that the system send (not send) STOP characters
when the input queue is nearly full and START characters to
resume data transmission. This shall have the effect of
setting (not setting) IXOFF in the termios c_iflag field,
as defined in the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008,
Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
Output Modes
opost (opost)
Post-process output (do not post-process output; ignore all
other output modes). This shall have the effect of setting
(not setting) OPOST in the termios c_oflag field, as
defined in the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008,
Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
ocrnl (ocrnl)
Map (do not map) CR to NL on output This shall have the
effect of setting (not setting) OCRNL in the termios
c_oflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
onocr (onocr)
Do not (do) output CR at column zero. This shall have the
effect of setting (not setting) ONOCR in the termios
c_oflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
onlret (onlret)
The terminal newline key performs (does not perform) the CR
function. This shall have the effect of setting (not
setting) ONLRET in the termios c_oflag field, as defined in
the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11,
General Terminal Interface.
ofill (ofill)
Use fill characters (use timing) for delays. This shall
have the effect of setting (not setting) OFILL in the
termios c_oflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions
volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal
Interface.
ofdel (ofdel)
Fill characters are DELs (NULs). This shall have the effect
of setting (not setting) OFDEL in the termios c_oflag
field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
cr0 cr1 cr2 cr3
Select the style of delay for CRs. This shall have the
effect of setting CRDLY to CR0, CR1, CR2, or CR3,
respectively, in the termios c_oflag field, as defined in
the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11,
General Terminal Interface.
nl0 nl1 Select the style of delay for NL. This shall have the
effect of setting NLDLY to NL0 or NL1, respectively, in the
termios c_oflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions
volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal
Interface.
tab0 tab1 tab2 tab3
Select the style of delay for horizontal tabs. This shall
have the effect of setting TABDLY to TAB0, TAB1, TAB2, or
TAB3, respectively, in the termios c_oflag field, as
defined in the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008,
Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface. Note that TAB3 has
the effect of expanding <tab> characters to <space>
characters.
tabs (tabs)
Synonym for tab0 (tab3).
bs0 bs1 Select the style of delay for <backspace> characters. This
shall have the effect of setting BSDLY to BS0 or BS1,
respectively, in the termios c_oflag field, as defined in
the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11,
General Terminal Interface.
ff0 ff1 Select the style of delay for <form-feed> characters. This
shall have the effect of setting FFDLY to FF0 or FF1,
respectively, in the termios c_oflag field, as defined in
the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11,
General Terminal Interface.
vt0 vt1 Select the style of delay for <vertical-tab> characters.
This shall have the effect of setting VTDLY to VT0 or VT1,
respectively, in the termios c_oflag field, as defined in
the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11,
General Terminal Interface.
Local Modes
isig (isig)
Enable (disable) the checking of characters against the
special control characters INTR, QUIT, and SUSP. This shall
have the effect of setting (not setting) ISIG in the
termios c_lflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions
volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal
Interface.
icanon (icanon)
Enable (disable) canonical input (ERASE and KILL
processing). This shall have the effect of setting (not
setting) ICANON in the termios c_lflag field, as defined in
the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11,
General Terminal Interface.
iexten (iexten)
Enable (disable) any implementation-defined special control
characters not currently controlled by icanon, isig, ixon,
or ixoff. This shall have the effect of setting (not
setting) IEXTEN in the termios c_lflag field, as defined in
the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11,
General Terminal Interface.
echo (echo)
Echo back (do not echo back) every character typed. This
shall have the effect of setting (not setting) ECHO in the
termios c_lflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions
volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal
Interface.
echoe (echoe)
The ERASE character visually erases (does not erase) the
last character in the current line from the display, if
possible. This shall have the effect of setting (not
setting) ECHOE in the termios c_lflag field, as defined in
the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11,
General Terminal Interface.
echok (echok)
Echo (do not echo) NL after KILL character. This shall have
the effect of setting (not setting) ECHOK in the termios
c_lflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
echonl (echonl)
Echo (do not echo) NL, even if echo is disabled. This shall
have the effect of setting (not setting) ECHONL in the
termios c_lflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions
volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal
Interface.
noflsh (noflsh)
Disable (enable) flush after INTR, QUIT, SUSP. This shall
have the effect of setting (not setting) NOFLSH in the
termios c_lflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions
volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal
Interface.
tostop (tostop)
Send SIGTTOU for background output. This shall have the
effect of setting (not setting) TOSTOP in the termios
c_lflag field, as defined in the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface.
Special Control Character Assignments
<control>character string
Set <control>character to string. If <control>character is one
of the character sequences in the first column of the following
table, the corresponding the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.12008, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface control
character from the second column shall be recognized. This has
the effect of setting the corresponding element of the termios
c_cc array (see the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008,
Chapter 13, Headers, <termios.h>).
Table: Control Character Names in stty
Control Character c_cc Subscript Description
eof VEOF EOF character
eol VEOL EOL character
erase VERASE ERASE character
intr VINTR INTR character
kill VKILL KILL character
quit VQUIT QUIT character
susp VSUSP SUSP character
start VSTART START character
stop VSTOP STOP character
If string is a single character, the control character shall be
set to that character. If string is the two-character sequence
"^" or the string undef, the control character shall be set to
_POSIX_VDISABLE , if it is in effect for the device; if
_POSIX_VDISABLE is not in effect for the device, it shall be
treated as an error. In the POSIX locale, if string is a two-
character sequence beginning with <circumflex> ('^'), and the
second character is one of those listed in the "^c" column of the
following table, the control character shall be set to the
corresponding character value in the Value column of the table.
Table: Circumflex Control Characters in stty
^c Value ^c Value ^c Value
a, A <SOH> l, L <FF> w, W <ETB>
b, B <STX> m, M <CR> x, X <CAN>
c, C <ETX> n, N <SO> y, Y <EM>
d, D <EOT> o, O <SI> z, Z <SUB>
e, E <ENQ> p, P <DLE> [ <ESC>
f, F <ACK> q, Q <DC1> \ <FS>
g, G <BEL> r, R <DC2> ] <GS>
h, H <BS> s, S <DC3> ^ <RS>
i, I <HT> t, T <DC4> _ <US>
j, J <LF> u, U <NAK> ? <DEL>
k, K <VT> v, V <SYN>
min number
Set the value of MIN to number. MIN is used in non-canonical
mode input processing (icanon).
time number
Set the value of TIME to number. TIME is used in non-canonical
mode input processing (icanon).
Combination Modes
saved settings
Set the current terminal characteristics to the saved settings
produced by the g option.
evenp or parity
Enable parenb and cs7; disable parodd.
oddp
Enable parenb, cs7, and parodd.
parity, evenp, or oddp
Disable parenb, and set cs8.
raw (raw or cooked)
Enable (disable) raw input and output. Raw mode shall be
equivalent to setting:
stty cs8 erase ^ kill ^ intr ^ \
quit ^ eof ^ eol ^ post inpck
nl (nl)
Disable (enable) icrnl. In addition, nl unsets inlcr and igncr.
ek Reset ERASE and KILL characters back to system defaults.
sane
Reset all modes to some reasonable, unspecified, values.
STDIN
Although no input is read from standard input, standard input shall be used to get the current terminal I/O characteristics and to set new terminal I/O characteristics.
INPUT FILES
None.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of stty:
LANG Provide a default value for the internationalization
variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions
volume of POSIX.12008, Section 8.2, Internationalization
Variables for the precedence of internationalization
variables used to determine the values of locale categories.)
LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of
all the other internationalization variables.
LC_CTYPE This variable determines the locale for the interpretation of
sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example,
single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments)
and which characters are in the class print.
LC_MESSAGES
Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format
and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard
error.
NLSPATH Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing
of LC_MESSAGES.
ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS
Default.
STDOUT
If operands are specified, no output shall be produced.
If the g option is specified, stty shall write to standard output the
current settings in a form that can be used as arguments to another
instance of stty on the same system.
If the a option is specified, all of the information as described in
the OPERANDS section shall be written to standard output. Unless
otherwise specified, this information shall be written as
<space>-separated tokens in an unspecified format, on one or more
lines, with an unspecified number of tokens per line. Additional
information may be written.
If no options or operands are specified, an unspecified subset of the
information written for the a option shall be written.
If speed information is written as part of the default output, or if
the a option is specified and if the terminal input speed and output
speed are the same, the speed information shall be written as follows:
"speed %d baud;", <speed>
Otherwise, speeds shall be written as:
"ispeed %d baud; ospeed %d baud;", <ispeed>, <ospeed>
In locales other than the POSIX locale, the word baud may be changed to
something more appropriate in those locales.
If control characters are written as part of the default output, or if
the a option is specified, control characters shall be written as:
"%s = %s;", <control-character name>, <value>
where <value> is either the character, or some visual representation of
the character if it is non-printable, or the string undef if the
character is disabled.
STDERR
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
OUTPUT FILES
None.
EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
None.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values shall be returned:
0 The terminal options were read or set successfully.
>0 An error occurred.
CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS
Default. The following sections are informative.
APPLICATION USAGE
The g flag is designed to facilitate the saving and restoring of
terminal state from the shell level. For example, a program may:
saveterm="$(stty g)" # save terminal state
stty (new settings) # set new state
... # ...
stty $saveterm # restore terminal state
Since the format is unspecified, the saved value is not portable across
systems.
Since the a format is so loosely specified, scripts that save and
restore terminal settings should use the g option.
EXAMPLES
None.
RATIONALE
The original stty description was taken directly from System V and reflected the System V terminal driver termio. It has been modified to correspond to the terminal driver termios. Output modes are specified only for XSI-conformant systems. All implementations are expected to provide stty operands corresponding to all of the output modes they support. The stty utility is primarily used to tailor the user interface of the terminal, such as selecting the preferred ERASE and KILL characters. As an application programming utility, stty can be used within shell scripts to alter the terminal settings for the duration of the script. The termios section states that individual disabling of control characters is possible through the option _POSIX_VDISABLE. If enabled, two conventions currently exist for specifying this: System V uses "^", and BSD uses undef. Both are accepted by stty in this volume of POSIX.12008. The other BSD convention of using the letter 'u' was rejected because it conflicts with the actual letter 'u', which is an acceptable value for a control character. Early proposals did not specify the mapping of "^c" to control characters because the control characters were not specified in the POSIX locale character set description file requirements. The control character set is now specified in the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 3, Definitions, so the historical mapping is specified. Note that although the mapping corresponds to control- character key assignments on many terminals that use the ISO/IEC 646:1991 standard (or ASCII) character encodings, the mapping specified here is to the control characters, not their keyboard encodings. Since termios supports separate speeds for input and output, two new options were added to specify each distinctly. Some historical implementations use standard input to get and set terminal characteristics; others use standard output. Since input from a login TTY is usually restricted to the owner while output to a TTY is frequently open to anyone, using standard input provides fewer chances of accidentally (or maliciously) altering the terminal settings of other users. Using standard input also allows stty a and stty g output to be redirected for later use. Therefore, usage of standard input is required by this volume of POSIX.12008.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.
SEE ALSO
Chapter 2, Shell Command Language The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.12008, Chapter 8, Environment Variables, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines, <termios.h>
COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html . Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .
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