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CONSOLETYPE

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Red Hat, Inc
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NAME

consoletype - print type of the console connected to standard input

SYNOPSIS

consoletype [stdout]

DESCRIPTION

consoletype prints the type of console connected to standard input. It prints vt if console is a virtual terminal (/dev/tty* or /dev/console device if not on a serial console), serial if standard input is a serial console (/dev/console or /dev/ttyS*) and pty if standard input is a pseudo terminal.

RETURN VALUE

consoletype When passed no arguments returns

0: if on virtual terminal
1: if on serial console
2: if on a pseudo terminal.
When passed the stdout argument, returns
0: in all cases.