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TTY(1) User Commands TTY(1)

NAME

tty - print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input

SYNOPSIS

tty [ OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

Print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input.
-s, --silent, --quiet
print nothing, only return an exit status
--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

Report tty bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
 
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
 
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
 
Report tty translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
 
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for tty is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and tty programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'tty invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
September 2011 GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb