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Copy terminfo entries to remote host
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You can copy the necessary terminfo descriptions to remote hosts.

  • On the local system, dump the description to text format:

    infocmp xterm-256color > xterm-256color.ti

    infocmp screen-256color > screen-256color.ti

  • Copy to the remote host and compile:

    tic xterm-256color.ti

    tic screen-256color.ti

The descriptions will be stored in ~/.terminfo.

(infocmp and tic are part of the ncurses or ncurses-bin packages in most Linux distributions, as well as most BSDs that use ncurses.)

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docwhat commented Mar 1, 2018

send-ssh-term can do this via one command.

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smason commented Sep 10, 2020

golfing this down to one line I've used

infocmp | ssh $HOST tic -

to do the "current terminal". this works because infocmp uses the current terminal by default (but you can pass a name as the OP does) and tic is happy taking input from stdin

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