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When starting tmux I need to pass a valid terminal type. Since I am scripting the initial startup of tmux I would like to cover all bases by figuring out the valid values of TERM on the current system.

How do I find valid values to use for tmux and which order, including a possible 16 color fallback, should I prefer?

This is mainly for Linux systems, but I presume the approach would be similar on most other unixoids.

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Why isn't your terminal setting one already? – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jan 25 at 18:52
It is, but that's not compatible with the way I want/need to run tmux. In order to force it to use 256 colors, I need to explicitly set it on the server I am connecting to. – 0xC0000022L Jan 25 at 18:57

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The toe command will show you the terminfo definitions on the current system. If you lack that command, you see the raw data in /usr/share/terminfo on most Linux systems.

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Great, thanks. toe -a|awk '{print $1}' is the kind of list I have been looking for. +1 and accept :) – 0xC0000022L Jan 25 at 18:59
Nice! Didn't know of toe until now. – htor Jan 25 at 22:14

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