STTY(1)

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version 0.12.0 · 4 versions
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✨ STTY — bestie's guide to your terminal's whole personality ✨

okay so this is stty from the General Commands Manual, and honestly? it's giving main character energy for something that just pokes at your terminal 💅

💖 NAME 💖

stty — Print or change terminal characteristics.

like, it reads your terminal's vibe and it can also fully rewrite the vibe. both. slay. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

stty [-F DEVICE | --file=DEVICE] [SETTING]...
or:  stty [-F DEVICE | --file=DEVICE] [-a|--all]
or:  stty [-F DEVICE | --file=DEVICE] [-g|--save]

three whole modes, bestie. you're either changing settings, dumping all of them, or saving them somewhere safe. choose your fighter 🌈

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Print or change terminal characteristics.

that's it. that's the whole thing. it prints them, it changes them, it's iconic, periodt 💜

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -a, --all — spill all the current settings, in a form a human can actually read 👀
  • -g, --save — spill all the current settings in a form that stty itself can read back later (so like, a save file for your terminal's whole situation) 💾
  • -F, --file <DEVICE> — open and use the DEVICE you name instead of stdin, iykyk 🫶
  • -h, --help — print help
  • -V, --version — print version
  • [settings] — the settings you wanna change. yeah that's the whole description, lowkey perfect 🍓

💀 VERSION 💀

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

🧚 EXAMPLES 🧚

Display current terminal size:

stty size

Display all settings for the current terminal:

stty [-a|--all]

Set the number of rows or columns:

stty rows|cols count

Get the actual transfer speed of a device:

stty [-F|--file] path/to/device_file speed

Reset all modes to reasonable values for the current terminal:

stty sane

(not me whispering "pls be sane" every time I type this 😭)

Switch between raw and normal mode:

stty raw|cooked

Turn character echoing off or on:

stty -echo|echo

Display help:

stty --help
The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.

like bestie said: examples come from tldr-pages <https://tldr.sh>, CC BY 4.0 License, and heads up — uutils is still a work in progress so some of these might just... not work. no cap. 🙈

okay that's the whole page! this one's from the uutils coreutils crew, version 0.12.0, and the page is dated 2026-09-25 — STTY(1), that's the whole vibe check 💖 bye bestie, go stty sane yourself 🌟

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