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get terminal size using ioctl get win size (TIOCGWINSZ) in C
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tty-size.c
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int
main(void) {
struct winsize ws;
ioctl(STDIN_FILENO, TIOCGWINSZ, &ws);
printf ("lines %d\n", ws.ws_row);
printf ("columns %d\n", ws.ws_col);
return (0);
}
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