Drush "tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified"

The drush script which provides comman line acceess to drupal functionality emits an error message when run as a cron job

tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified

# If it is not exported determine and export the number of columns.
if [ -z $COLUMNS ]; then
  export COLUMNS=$(tput cols)
fi

I presume drush uses this information to calculate layout of output.

However when running as a cron job COLUMNS is not set and tput gives the above error.

To resolve this specify a COLUMNS value in your cron job, setting an appropriate size for viewing in email

cron now runs the following for me.

#!/bin/bash

cd /var/www/mysite/public_html

COLUMNS=80 /home/me/bin/drush cron

Written on 18th of February 2010

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Thanks, having this problem

Submitted by k4ml (not verified) on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 02:13.

Thanks, having this problem too. Google lead me to this page when searching for the above error message ;)

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Use of "export COLUMNS" in cron job

Submitted by ahwebd (not verified) on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 17:03.

Thanks for this,

Just a small note, you can also edit your cron job instead of editing your scripts(which might be used elsewhere, not only in cron jobs and you don't want to mess with them), to do this use "export" for COLUMNS
example:
25 02 * * 2 COLUMNS=120 ; export COLUMNS ; bash /path/to/script.sh

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Easier fix

Submitted by Fonant (not verified) on Mon, 12/20/2010 - 17:39.

Just adding a line:

COLUMNS=80

at the top of the crontab file works for me :)

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