Attention: Answers.ros.org is deprecated as of August the 11th, 2023. Please visit robotics.stackexchange.com to ask a new question. This site will remain online in read-only mode during the transition and into the foreseeable future. Selected questions and answers have been migrated, and redirects have been put in place to direct users to the corresponding questions on Robotics Stack Exchange. Additional details are available here.

Revision history [back]

rossrv offers exactly the same sub-commands as rosmsg. See its wiki.

For your particular case,

$ rossrv 
list      md5       package   packages  show      
$ rossrv show turtlesim/TeleportAbsolute
float32 x
float32 y
float32 theta
---

Or without package name:

$ rossrv show TeleportAbsolute                                                                                                                                                            
[turtlesim/TeleportAbsolute]:
float32 x
float32 y
float32 theta
---

ROS Answers is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 license.