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STTY(1P) POSIX Programmer's Manual STTY(1P)
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The
Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
stty — set the options for a terminal
stty [-a|-g]
stty operand...
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.1‐2017,
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.1‐2017. 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.
The stty utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.1‐2017, 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.
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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017,
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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017,
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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, Chapter 11, General Terminal
Interface.
onlcr (-onlcr)
Map (do not map) NL to CR-NL on output. This shall
have the effect of setting (not setting) ONLCR in the
termios c_oflag field, as defined in the Base
Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017,
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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017, 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.
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.
None.
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.1‐2017, 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.
Default.
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.
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
None.
None.
The following exit values shall be returned:
0 The terminal options were read or set successfully.
>0 An error occurred.
Default.
The following sections are informative.
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.
None.
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.1‐2017. 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.1‐2017, 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.1‐2017.
None.
Chapter 2, Shell Command Language
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter 8,
Environment Variables, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface,
Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines, termios.h(0p)
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic
form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information
Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The
Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright
(C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
Inc and The Open Group. 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.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .
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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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