TTY
NAME
tty - print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input
SYNOPSIS
tty
[-s] [--silent] [--quiet] [--help] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
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or incomplete. The Texinfo documentation is now the authoritative source.
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
tty.
tty
prints the file name of the tty connected to its standard input. It
prints `not a tty' if the standard input is not a tty. Its exit
status is:
0 if the standard input is a tty
1 if the standard input is not a tty
2 if given incorrect arguments
3 if a write error occurs
OPTIONS
- --help
-
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
- -s, --silent, --quiet
-
Print nothing; only return an exit status.
- --version
-
Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.