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Name

tty - print the path of the terminal connected to standard input

Synopsis

tty [-s] [--silent] [--quiet] [--help] [--version]

Description

This manual page documents the GNU version of tty. tty prints the path 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.


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