tip (Unix utility)

<h2 id="basics">Basics</h2>
<p>tip is one of the commands referenced in the <a href="/facts/Expect/wqGrbJNH">expect</a> reference book by Don Libes.
</p><p>The tip command line options are as follows:
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tip [-v] [-speed-entry] (<hostname> | <phone-number> | <device>)

Use ~. to exit.
Use ~# to break (Stop-A on a Sun keyboard).
Use ~? to list all commands.

<h2 id="examples">Examples</h2>
<p>This <a href="/facts/Expect/wqGrbJNH">Expect</a> script is a simple example that establishes a terminal session:
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spawn tip modem
expect "connected"
send "ATD$argc\r"
set timeout 30
expect "CONNECT"

<p>As tip does not have the built-in logging capabilities that <a href="/facts/Minicom/dIkqr8Rk">Minicom</a> has, we need to use some other means to record the session. One way is to use <a href="/facts/Script_(Unix)/ovxq1fUF">script</a>:
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$ script -a install.log
Script started, file is install.log
$ tip hardwire
[tip session takes place.]
$ exit
Script done, file is install.log
$

<p>and so on. In the above example, run on a Sun <a href="/facts/SPARC/m7KhEtET">SPARC</a> 20 workstation running Solaris 9, we first created a log file called install.log in the current directory using script' and then tell tip to use serial port B.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Cu_(Unix_utility)/dQp9XLVy">cu (Unix utility)</a>, a similar command</li></ul>

<ul><li>Libes, Don (1995). <a href="https://archive.org/details/exploringexpectt00libe"><i>Exploring Expect: A Tcl-Based Tool for Automating Interactive Programs</i></a>. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 1-56592-090-2.</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/usr.bin/tip">NetBSD source to tip</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

<ol>
<li id="fn:1"><p>"tip - connect to remote system". Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library. Oracle Corporation. 2013. Retrieved 2019-05-09. <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E29030/tip-1.html" target="_blank">https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E29030/tip-1.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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