Re: checkwinsize only works in interactive shells

[DJ Mills]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 1/11/13 4:46 PM, DJ Mills wrote:
>
> > Will they still be updated on WINCH without checkwinsize, as well? And
> will
> > they be set by default, or continue to be unset in scripts unless set
> manually?
>
> The only thing that's changed is that checkwinsize works in non-interactive
> shells.  SIGWINCH still updates LINES and COLUMNS, and bash won't set LINES
> and COLUMNS itself.
>
> Chet
> --
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>
>
As of right now, WINCH will not update COLUMNS or LINES in a
non-interactive shell.

I've had to use:
trap 'COLUMNS=$(tput cols); LINES=$(tput lines)' WINCH
to get that behavior.